Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-05-14
HICKMAN PAsHA.
aueksport Boy Tsctician for the
Turkish Navy.
Prom the New York Verdi

Iufkt>H Navy.
prom the New York Verdi
Once more the international limeiight
49,. been trained upon Rsnsfoxd %. Buck
buchanan Pashs Bucksport
-. head strategish OF the Turkish feet
- accent sea battles with the Greeks.
pover and adyenturer all his life, boy
.,.;n Of a whalcback on the Great
r,s.s later commander OF vessels plying
s1tween New York, Boston and Balti-
more. chief navigator OF big steamships
on the Pacific ocean, Buchanan became
a,u, fayorite OF the crusl and fickie Abdul
usn,ia. who made him admiral OF the
1n,pish navy. But being . Yankee from
pueksport, Buchanan chung to his Ameri-
o.n citizenship, and when Abdul was
overthrown, refused 10 accept the ultima
,,rn from the new Sultan, Mohammed W,
that he swear allegiance to the Ottoman
aAr and become subject OF AhduIis sue
eessor.
hickman pasha was ssace- high" with the
Young Turks. and also strong With the
old Adbul Hamid supporters, but be quit
the Turkish service rather than become a
Turkish subject. But his restless, con-
strnc,ive mind was not to be curhed, and
he is now q sort OF John ID. Rockefeller
and William c. Whitney in CONSTANT
lands as well as In street railway routes,
and has begun to pile up a big fortune.
II was to Buchanan, now an oil magnate
and a traffic expert, that the Turks turned
when the Greeks began to threaten the
pardaneIles with their squadron. when
the Ottomans made q desperate and dash
ina sorsie and, In attacking and driving of
the Greeks, followed tactical plan OF nm
usual skin, the Greeks were astonished.
Only when their spies inside Constauti-
noplc reported, did the besiegcrs under
stand " hat had happened. II was Buck
nam Pasha, the down-east Yankee, who
drew up the elaborate plan! During the
battle he watched and advised by wireless
from the heights behind Fort Kun Kaieh.
Buckham couldn't keep out OF IL. He
owed much TO his Turkish friends, even
though under a new regime. And al
though not in active command, II was an
American brain that furnished the strategy
OF what Turks hailed as a brilliant naval
achievement.
Buchanan doesn't need any three-sheet
advertising on the biilboards OF the world.
He Is torty-nine years old, hard as steel
and shrcwd as q storekeepcr at the four
corners in his native State. He is short.
broad as he is long, undershoi jaw q
regular human bnlldog. II was lucky fate
for him thas Mohammed V. tried to force
him TO give up his American citizenship.
Otherwise he might not have had the OPP
portunity TO develop, Is the chief expioiter,
some OF the most valuable petroleum
resources of the ottomans.
Buchanan has the rights In three in
portant oil centres in European and
AsAtic Turkey. His opportunity Is a
wonderful one, because Turkey has in the
past imported 1000, 600. gallons OF oil
from Russia, Roumania and America
every year. Bucknam's Anglo American
syndicate owns enough oil iandsto supply
not only the wants OF Turkey,rbut to ex-
port large quantities to foreign countries.
An important source Of his supply Is the
region of Meriotito, q port near Rodosto
on the European shore OF the Sea Of
rln,,.,,n, =, "a ooo go. =, mi. "a, land
he p-i,,sh oa,rrsnv .sn,,sI,zss a, 3, :.
10000 Buchanan Pashs also controls
10000 acres of oii-prodncing territory
near the northeast shore OF Lake Van in
Eastern Asia Minor, and another 1900
acres about eighty miles south OF Trebi-
zonA a.. n,,., Tn~,-i.h ,.o,, q, IN. RI.ek
see Tn. ii, ,o,ra q, the Buckman
uo...s.,o, axs.,. ,ns p,..,an nrosuct as
fne rar.syna 81, ana .I.o i. three 10 Ave
davs - ~. s,,ro,..n msrks,s
Th,. !. ~. ~ ,,h,.s =, an amazing
.csrsa- ,.s, p,,.,nsr, h.. now entered
His IT, ,.s - r.n,s,. ,xi,n hold ADJ
v.r,,rn a., aa.u,, ,e,l, ,;r, into s,rangs
,servioa in 4 .,r.pys countrv. His exploits
beyan vo,ny
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