The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-04
A COMEDY OFF TURKEY.
ENTRANCE REFUSED A SHIP WITH
TURKISH SURVIVORS.


The Vessel a Japanese Man-of- War,
and Her Ship-wrecked Passengers
the Survivors of the Turkish Man.
of-war Ertogroul-A Chase to Apol-
ogize.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Jan. 8-An interna-
tional incident which caused some ridicule
aud considerable indignation has occurred
in these waters during the past day or 50.
a japanese iron-clad frigats having on
board the survivors of the Ertogrcul CHE
Turkish iron-clad which founded in tho
China sea Sept. IS during typhoon), ar
rived of the forts and batteries guarding
the entrance Of the Dardanelles. When the
Japanese war vessels name and
mission were communicated to the
Turkish officers at the entrance
Of the straits, these officials
claimed that they had no authority to
admit the iron-clads passage through the
DArdanelles. The Turks also suggested that
the survivors of the Ertogroul disaster
should be landed from the Japanese vessel
into the Doats OF the Turkish officials,
thereby intimating that while Obliged for
the favor done to Turkey in bring
ing the unfortunate Turkish sail
the sooner the Japanese war vessel returned
TO japan the better pleased would the Turk
ish officers be. This treatment so enraged
the commander OF the japanese frigate that
he ordered his anchor hove up, and SOON
afterward headed his vessel seaward again,
firmly resolved to take the rescued Turks
back to the place he had brought them
from.
ROW AMONG THE TURKS.
While the japanese officers had been
parleying with the Turks, the latter, it seems,
had been vigorously working the wires"
communicating between the forts at the
entrance Of the DardAnelles and the author
tiles at Constantinople. Then there was @
furious row between the palace authorities
and the military authorities another bs-
tween the palace authorities and the naval
authorities aud another still between all
three groups Of authorities combined. When
the air again became clear about Constanti-
nople and the Dardanelles. steam was hur-
riedly got up on the fastest vessel available
at Constantinople, the imperial yacht. That
vessel, after crowdinR on all the steam she
could with safety carry, managed TO over
take the Japanese frigate off the port Of
Smyrna, where she was expecting to coal
APOLOGIES FINALLY ACcEPTED.
The Turkish imperial yacht ran alongside
the japanese iron-clad and the Turks began
a series Of profuse apologies for the rudeness
Of the Turkish officers on duty at the
entrance to the Dardanelles, explaining that
international regulations forbid any
foreign iron-clad from entering the straits.
and suggest ng all sorts Of ways in which the
matter could be settled. The japanese
commander finally accepted the apologies
rendered him, transferred the survivors OF
the Ertogroul to the imperial yacht, and
everybody felt more comfortable.
THE EBToGRoUL's CREW.
News of the loss of the Ertogronl was
received by cable dispatches from Hiogo.
japan, it being then announced that 500 Of
her crew of $40 officers and sailors perished
when she foundered. Among those drowned
upon this occasion was Admiral Osman
Pasha, who was at the time con-
founded with the famous general of PlevDa
fame, Osman PashA. Ali Pasha, one Of the
few Turkish generals who entered the army
as a private soldier. was also on board the
unfortunate Ertogroul, the Turkish frigate
envoy OF the Sultan TO the Japanese ems
peror.
LUDrCRoUs CRUISE.
The progress of the warship Ertogroui
from the time she left Constantinople sew
eral months before she was lost until she
finally foundered In the China sea, was
most ludicrous. She left Turkey short OF
money, coal and supplies, and seems to have
put without result into several ports
where she expected TO replenish
her treasury, bunkers and pantriea But
the supplies which the home officials were
expected to send to these ports do not seem
to have materializsd, the result being that
the unfortunate vessel was always in trou-
BILE and her crew continually in danger OF
starvation. She lost several of her officers
through sickness, and her crew was fire.
quently on the verge Of mutiny, owing to
the priVations they had to endure.
HARBoR DUES INSISTED ON.
Foreign port authorities in several cases
refused to remit the harbor dues or grant
other privileges due the Ertogroul as a man
of-war, on the ground that she could not be
man-of-war, as there was not enough
powder on board the vessel TO allow OF the
firing of salutes. However, by patience and
through dread Of experience by her officers
of doing anything else, the Ertogroul
finally managed to reach Japanese waters,
and there seems to have given up the strug-
gle, as a final protest against the Turkish
governments stupid mismanagement. Ad-
miral Osman Pasha, who perished with the
Ertogroul, was vice admiral of the Turkish
feet, aud a son-in-law of Hassan Pasha,
Turkish minister of marine Also on board
the ill'fated vessel were number OF Turkish
naval cadets.
IN STRIKING CONTRAST.
News has been received here to the effect
that the Emperor of Germany is sending q
special envoy to the Sultan OF Turkey in
order to present the latter with
several rich gifts in token Of
the emperor's appreciation of the assistance
rendered by the Turkish authorities to
the German iron-clad Friedrich Karl This
vessel. IL will be remembered, was reported
aT.1 nne Lnxv R,.fFk t.s.
Island of Mytilene, in the Egean sea, near
the coast of Asia Minor. Thanks to the as
sistance rendered by the Turkish authori-
ties the Friedrich Karl was hoated without
having sustained much damage.