The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-21
REAR ADMIRAL ACHMED PAsHA
SAYS HE DIDN'T BRING ANY
CASH ALONG
WATTS some War POINTERS
SULTAN WOULD LIKE TO IN
CREASE THE PROwEss OF
HIS NAVY
DEFEAT WOULD END RUSSIA
The representative of the Turk
ktsh Navy Says the Bear
Would Go to
Pieces.

NEW YORK, May 2O-Rear Admiral
Ahmed Pasha, who arrived at this port
Friday night on board the steamship An
guste Victoria. said last night that his
mission to this country had no connec-
ton with any work of diplomacy. In
stead, the purpose of his mission he
said, was to inspect American warships
and methods of naval and ordnance con-
struction, with a possible view of pur-
chasing cruiser for the Turkish gov
ernment
In speaking Of the report that he had
any proposals to make to this country
concerning the indemnity claimed by the
United States from Turkey, because Of
injuries suffered by missionaries during
the Armenian troubles, he said to a Trib
une reporter:
My business is that Of an engineer,
not that Of a diplomat OF diplomatic
relations therefore I have no right to
speak. That falls to the duty of our
Turkish minister at Washington. AS yet
I am waiting instructions from the sub
lime porte. They are to come TO me from
the minister, but inasmuch as l arrived
cnly last night 1 am not surprised that 1
have not heard from him From what
l could learn of the desires of the sultan
in conversation with him he is anxious
to increase the prowess of his navy.
will not give the reasons. I 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
basis with Western countries From
what we have seen and learned of the
American navy 1t seemed that there could
be no better place to learn modern meth
DDS Of construction than in America
Again, it is neutral country, one which
would not visit such visit with sus-
picion. I was selected for the mission
because 1 am the engineer in chief Of
the Turkish navy.
81 shall doubtless visit the different
naval stations of this country; perhaps,
go as far as San Francisco, but will give
special attention to the navy yards at
Brooklyn and Newport News. When I
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 Tur-
key, he said:
''As a cosmopolitan, rather than an en-
sia's greatest danger Is from herself She
Is composed Of strange conglomeration
Of peoples, many of whom have no gym
pathy for each other. IT also happens
that some OF the subJugated peoples that
have come under the sway Of the czar
are higher in the standard of intellect,
morals and physical strength than the
race OF the ruling Romanoffs. There IS
the Circassian, for instance who is far
superior in prowess Of war There IS the
Pole, who IS higher in the scale of In
tellectual endowments. and the Finn,
who Is mere moral in his habits OF life.
And yet Russia IS still spreading out,
still graspins for more, still taking un-
der her power people who are utterly an
tagonisuc to her in point Of racial quail
tiles
Let me tell you" he began again, '1t
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"