Mahmud Shevket Pasha, who was born at Baghdad in 1857,
was a disciple of General von der Goltz, and spent nine years in Germany and France studying the scientific and practical sides of modern warfare. He was Vali of Kossovo in 1905 when the Young Turk revolution broke out, was transferred by the new Government to Salonica as Commander-in-chief of the Third Army Corps, and ho headed and carried through the historic march on Constanti- nople which suppressed the counter-revolution of April 1909. In the last stage of the war he is credited with acting as a moderating influence, and said to have overborne the Cabinet's objection to accepting the conditions of peace in May which they had revolted against in January. Mahmud, it is curious to notice, was never a member of the Committee, though his association with it cost him his life. Prince Said Halim, who has been appointed his successor, is official chief of the Com- mittee and nephew of the Khedive, Ismail Pasha. Beyond these two facts and his wealth nothing is known of him.
