Izzet Pasha New Army Chief.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 1, 1913:
He Exhorts the Troops to be Worthy in the National Crisis.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 31.— Izzet Pasha, Chief of the General Staff of the War Office and who after the resignation of Kiamil Pasha's Cabinet assumed provisionally the portfolio of Minister of War, has. been appointed commander-in-chief of the Turkish forces in succession to the late Nazim Pasha.
    Izzet to-day addressed a general order to the troops, notifying them of his assumption of command of the army and calling on them in this critical moment of Ottoman history to show themselves worthy the glorious tradition of their race as true sons of noble ancestors.
    All the officers and men of the army who are on furlough have been ordered to rejoin their regiments within 24 hours.
    The Military Governor of the capital has issued an emphatic denial of the reports of dissensions among the troops on the Tchatalja lines.