Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Prince Aziz Not Executed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 6, 1913:
Khedive's Cousin, Reported Shot for Cowardice, Reaches Home.
    ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 5.— Prince Aziz Hassan, a cousin of the Khedive, who was supposed to have been courtmartialed and executed by a firing squad at Constantinople for showing the white feather in the battle of Kirk-Kilisseh, arrived here to-day on board the French steamer Cordillere. He boarded the vessel at one of the ports of Asia Minor, where she called on her way from Marseilles.
    Prince Aziz Hassan was in command of the Turkish cavalry at Kirk-Kilisseh, and it was said that he was responsible for the panic which set in among the Turkish troops. Mahmud Mukhtar Pasha tried to stop the flight from the battlefield by shooting several soldiers with his revolver, but without avail. Prince Aziz was alleged to be among the first to flee.

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