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Show ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE ENVER BEY Young Turk , Leader Seriously Seri-ously Stabbed by Turkish Turk-ish Soldiers. KL meBauuw -J Baaaagsf k vi ENVER BEY. LONDON, Feb. 17. Turkih soldiers early todav attempted to aaaaeeinnte and succeeded in badly wounding Enver Bey, tbe Young Turk leader. A news agency dlsiteh by wireless from Constantinople says that Enver lies was stabbed severely several times, but gives no further details. Knvrr last week made a disastrous effort to pierce the Hanks of the Bulgarian Bul-garian artnv on the shores of the sea of Marmora with a forlorn hope of Ottoman troops, who were beaten back with terrible losses. He was on of the leaders in the recent re-cent revolt of the "Young Turk,' which led to a renewal of the watr between be-tween Turkey and the Balkan states. Several threats against his life had been made among the disaffected sol-diprv. sol-diprv. who were afoused by the assassination assas-sination of Narim Pasha, their beloved be-loved commander in chief. Enver was a prominent military leader in the war in Tripoli and was called bv European experts "the best soldier in the Turkish army." |