A determined attempt was made to murder Sherif Pasha in
Paris on Wednesday. Sherif Pasha, formerly Turkish Minister at Stockholm, having fallen out with the Committee
of Union and Progress, has since lived in Paris and has un- sparingly denounced the Committee in the Mcelviroutiette, the organ of the Turkish Entente Liberate, which he edits. Of late he has been repeatedly threatened by Young Turk partisans and obliged to appeal for police protection. On Wednesday morning a stranger called to see Sherif, shot his servant through the body, and then fired at Sherif's secretary. Salih Bey, Sherif s son-in-law, who ran in on hearing the shots, was himself fired at before killing his assailant, who carried a dagger and two revolvers, one of them of the regulation pattern used by the Turkish police. Sherif Psalm, it is stated, believes that the man was himself a Turkish police agent, and in view of Sherif's friendship with Maxim and Nazim's end, the Committee is exposed to sinister suspicions of resorting to the worst form of terrorism. The Paris police have since arrested a Press representative of the Committee who appears to have acted as an agent provocateur. while, on the other hand, the Agence Ottomans at Constantinople has issued a strongly-worded clementi denying the alleged cons plicity of the Turkish Government or of Turkish parties in the attempted assassination of Sherif.
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