The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-21
Careful and Concise Analysis of the
Principal Danger Confronting
the Empire of the Czar.
ADMIRAL IS NOT A DIPLOMAT
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
QUESTION OF THE INDEMNITY.
VIII Examine the Navy Yards and
Ordnance Factories, and May Buy
Warship or TwOs

NEW YORK; May a.-Rear Admiral
Ahmed Pasha, who arrived at this port
Friday night on board the steamship Au-
guste Victoria. said last night that his
mission to this country had no connection
with any work of diplomacy. Instead. the
purpose of his mission. he said, was to in
spect American warships and methods of
naval and ordnance construction, with a
the Turkish government. In speaking of
the report that he had any proposals to
make to this country concerning the in
demnity claimed by the United States from
Turkey because of injuries suffered by
missionaries during the Armenian troubles
he said to Tribune reporter:
my business is that of an engineer, not
of a diplomat. OF diplomatic relations.
therefore, 1 have no right to speak. That
falls to the duties of our Turkish minister
at Washington. AS yet / am waiting in
structions from the Sublime Porte. They
are to come to me from the minister, but
jnasmuch as / arrived only last night 1 am
not surprised that 1 have not heard from
him.
From what I could learn of the desires
of the Sultan in conversation with him he
is anxious to increase the prowess of his
navy. 1 will not give the reason. will
not say whether we fear Russia or England
or any other country, but at any rate We
see that our navy must be put on a basi9
with western countries. From what we
have seen and learned of the American
navy 1t seemed that there could be no bet
ter place to learn modern methods Of con-
struction than in America. Again, 1t is a
neutral country, one which would not view
such a mission with suspicion. was Sc
Iected for the mission because I am the
engineer-in- chief of the Turkish navy.
at shall doubtless visit the different naval
stations of this country; perhaps go as far
as San Francisco, but will give special at
tention to the navy yards at Brooklyn and
Newport News. When 1 have reported to
the Sublime Porte the result of my study
then 1 may make some purchases"
When the admiral was asked to speak OF
the situation between Russia and Turkey
he said: "As a cosmopolitan, rather than
an envoy of the Sultan. would say that
Russia's greatest danger is from herself.
Oue lS CoIHpoScQ Ol d SlFduSe COuSiOueTd-
tion Of people. many Of whom have no
sympathy for each other. 1t also happens
that some of the subjugated people that
have come under the sway of the Gar are
higher in the standard of intellect, morals
and physical strength than the race Of the
ruling Romanoffs. There is the Caucasian.
for instance, who is far superior In prowess
of war; there is the Pole. who is higher In
the scale of intellectual endowments, and
the Finn, who Is more moral in his habits
Of life And yet Russia is still spreading
out, still grasping for more, still taking
under her people who are wholly antago-
nistic to her in point Of all racial qualities.
Let me tell you," he began again. 'if
Russia suffered one great. overwhelming
battle she would go to pieces because of
her own decentralizing forces; forces which
are kept within bounds only by fear and
the dread of punishment and exile