St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-04
The Latter Reseues Turkish
Sailors and Receives
Turkish Abuse.
The Imperial Yacht, However,
Follows Up With Profuse
Apologies.
Account Of the Loss by Ship
wreck Of Admiral Os-
man PaSha.

some ridicule and considerable indigna-
ton occurred in these waters during the
past day or so. A Japanese iron-clad
frigate, having on board the survivors
of the Ertogroul Ghe Turkish ironclad
which foundered IN the Chinese seas
during the typhoon), arrived off 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 Off
cials claimed that they had no author
ity to admit the ironclad passage
through the Dardanelles. The Turks
also suggested that the survivors of the
Ertogroul disaster should be landed
from the Japanese vessel into the boats
of the Turkish officials, thereby init
mating that while obliged for the favor
done to Turkey in bringing the unfort-
innate Turkish sailors back to their ma
tive land, the sooner the Japanese war
vessel returned to Jaaan the better
pleased would the Turkish officers be-.
The Jap Is Angry.
This treatment so enraged the COM
mander of the Japanese frigate that he
ordered his anchor hove up, and soon
after headed his vessel seaward again,
firmly resolved to take the rescued
Turks back to the place he had brought
them from. While the Japanese officers
had been parleying with the Turks, the
latter, it seems, had been vigorously
working the wires" communicating
between the forts and the entrance of
the Dardanelles and the authorities at
Constantinople. Then there was
furious row between the palace authori-
ties and the military authorities,
another between the palace authorities
and the naval authorities, and still
another between all three groups of
authorities combined. When the air
had become clear about ConstantnOple
and the Dardanelles, steam was hurridly
got up upon the fastest vessel available
at Constantinople-the imperial yacht
The vessel, after crowding on all the
steam she could with safety carry,
managed to Oyertake the Japanese
frigate off the port of Smyrna, where
she was expecting to coal. The
Turkish Imperial Yacht
ran alongside the Japanese ironcad and
the Turks began a series Of pr0fuSe
apologies for the rudeness of the Turk
iSh officers on duty at the entrance of
the DdrdeneleS. explaining that the in
ternatIonal regulations forbid any for
eign ironclads from entering the straits,
and suggesting 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 ErtUgroul to the
yacht,and everybody felt more
comfortable. The news of the loss of
Ertogroul was received by cable dis
patch from Hiogo, Japan, it being then
announced that 500 of her crew OF 5S4
officers and sailors persisted when she
fOundered. Among those who were
drowned upon this occasion was Osman
Pasha. who was at that time confound-
ed with the famous general of Plevna
fame, Osman Ali Pasha, one of
the few Turkish generals who entered
the army as private soldier, who was
also OH board the unfortunate ErtOgrOul.
The Turkish frigate was
Bearing Osman Pasha
on a special mission, as envoy of the
sultan to the Japanese emperor. The
progress of the war ship ErtOgrOul from
the time she left ConstantnOple, several
finally foundered in the China seas. 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 pantries. But
supplies which the home officials were
expected to SEND to these ports do not
seem to have materialiZed, the result
being that the unfortunate vessel was
always in trouble and her crew con-
tinuallY in danger of starvation. She
left several of her officers through sick
ness, and her crew were frequently Oh
the verge of mutiny owing to the priva-
tons they had to endure. The foreign
port authorities in several cases refused
to remit the harbOr dues or grant other
privileges due the Ertogroul as man-
Of-war, on the ground that she could
not be man-of-war. as there was not
enough powder Oil board of her to allow
of the firing OF salutes. However, by
patience and through the dread ex-
perienced by her officers of doing any
thing else, the Ertogroul finally man
aged to reach Japanese waters, and
there seem to have
Given Up the Struggle
as final protest against the Turkish
governments stupid mismanagement.
The ErtogrOul was wooden frigate of
2,544 tons burthen; she was built in
1868 and carried forty-one guns of small
caliber. Admiral Osman Pasha. who
persisted with the Ertogroul, was vice
admiral of the Turkish fleet and a SON
in-law of HasSan Pasha, Turkish min
lister of marine. Also on board the ill
fated vessel were a number of Turkish
naval students. News mas been received
here to the effect that the emperor of
Germany is sending a especial 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
to the German irOncIad
Friedrich Karl. This vessel. it will DE
was reported ashore Dec.
%, baving ran on reef off the island of
in the Hgean sea, near the
coast of Asia Minor. Thanks to the as
distance rendered by the Turkish au-
the Friedrich Karl was floated
without having sustained such damage.
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