The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-07-16
TURKEY AND GREECE.
GET READY To WAR.
FOR new TERRITORY
Both Nations Increase Navy
and Strengthen Army for
Conflict Expected in Near
!, Future.

ATHENS, July 16.-Turkey since
the second Balkan war has driven
49, 900 Greeks from Asia Minor In a
most crucial manner. II she persists
In her determination of expelling the
e,50O,0 900 Greeks still within her bor'
uers another sanguinary conflict Is
probably unavoidable.
While the Greeks are leaving their
homes in Turkish territory against
their will and are seeing their pos
sessions confiscated until they are re-
duced to penury, similar large
exodus Of Turks is taking place III
Macedonia and other northern sec
hons now under the rule OF King
Constantine. But the Turks are leav-
Ing of their own free will in anticlpa-
ton Of a triumphary return under the
guard Of Turkish bayonets.
Meanwhile on both sides war prep
arations go on feverishly. Despite
her impoverished condition Turkey Is
carrying out great naval programme.
Messrs. Vickers of Barrow, England,
are now completing the Reshadieh.
The latter is 525 fete long, has dis
placement of $4,000 tons and carries
ten 1876 inch guns with a smaller bat
terry.
Complete Second Vessel.
Another vessel designed for the
Turkish navy is being completed on
the Tyne. 1t is the Sultan Osman L.,
which was launched on behalf OF
Brazil under the name of the Rio dc
Janeiro, but has since been purchased
by Turkey for more than $12,OOO,00O
Orders have also been given for the
hulls of two scouts to be built on the
Tyne and the machinery at Barrow.
So anxious is the Turkish marine
minister to obtain his dreadnoughts
that he is willing to accept them with
out trial, without cabins without the
final coating Of paint and even with
one gun wanting
BY waving these conditions he will
gain nearly two months and receive
the battleships on August l or earlier
Build Up Navy.
The Turks are concentrating the1l
strength in the navy rather than the
army The way to this was pointed
out by the Americans in the Turkish
service, Captain Ransford D. Buck
nam, who with a single vessel the
Hamadiesh, made several celebrated
raids in the course of the recent wars
appearing suddenly at unprotected
points and doing a great amount O.
damage to the Turks enemies. 1t i:
expected that this capable officer, who
Is known as Bucknam Pasha in Con
stantinople, will figure largely in thu
struggle that threatens.
Greece is making desperate efforts
to put herself in a posture of defence
but her means, even taking into &C
count the effects on Turkey of the tive
Balkan wars, are very small compared
to Turkeys resources.
Undoubtedly her shrewdest move
was the purchase from the United
States of the battleships Mississippi
and Idaho, vessels in commission
These two large craft will soon be il
Grecian waters and ready to face thu
new Turkish navy. That they will b.
able to meet the three Turkish dread
naughts on anything like equa
grounds is doubtful, but their presenc,
is giving some reinsurance to Greece
Greece is most anxious to keep tn,
peace. But 1t is believed general.
here that Turkey is resolved to en-
force her claims to the islands O
Aegean sea the moment her dread
naughts arrive. This moment is no
far off.