The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-22
GREECE AND TURKEY
ABOUT To GRAPPLE
Each Nation Buying Ships and Put
ting Its Army in Highest state
of Efficiency

the second Balkan war has driven
$50 900 Greeks from Asia Minor in
most crucial manner. If she per-
sists in her determination Of expell-
| ing the 100000 Greeks still within
her borders another sanguinary con-
/ fiict is probably unavoidable.
| While the Greeks are leaving their
homes in Turkish territory against
their will and are seeing their pos
sessions confscated until they are re-
duced to penury, a similar large ex-
odus of Turks is taking. place in Mac
edonia and other northern sections
now under the rule of King Constan-
| tine. But the Turks are leaving of
their own free will in anticipation of
triumphant 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 a great naval pro-
gram. Messrs. Vickers, of Barrow,
England, who are now completing the
Reshadieh to the order OF the Otto
man government, have just receiy-
ed an order for a second battleship
/ to be laid down at once. The new
craft is to be larger than the Res1a-
dieh. The latter is $50 feet long, has
a displacement of $4,000 tons and
carries 10 1875 inch ms with small
Ter battery.
Another vessel designed for the
Turkish navy is being finished on the
/ Tyne. It is the Sultan Osman L.,
which was launched on behalf of
Brazil under the name of the Rio de
Janerio, but has since been purchas-
/ ed by Turkey for more than s12,-
! 100000. Orders have also been CIV
en- for the bulls of two scouts to be
/ built on the Tyne and the machin-
cry at Barrow.
So anxious is the Turkish marine
minister to obtain his dreadnoughts,
he is willing to accept them without
trial, without cabins, without final
coating of paint and even with one
gun wanting.
By waving these conditions he
will gain nearly two months and re-
ceive the battleships on Aug. 1 or
earlier.
The Turks are concentrating their
strength in the navy rather than in
the army. The way to this was
pointed out b. an American in the
/ Turkish service. Captain Ransford
D. Buckham, who with a single yes
sci the Hamadieh, made several eel
ebrated raids in the course of the re-
cent wars. appearing suddenly at I'M
protected points and doing a grea
amount of damage to the Turks en-
emies. 1t is expected that this cap
able officer, who is known as Buck
ham Pasha in Constantinople vii
J figure largely in the struggle tina
threatens.
Greece is making desperate effort
) to put herself in a posture of defen
|. &c, but her means, even taking int
account the effects on Turkey of tn
& two Balkan wars, are very small com
pared with Turkeys resources.
Undoubtedly her shrewdest NOV
was the purchase from the Unite
States of the batt1eships Mississippi
3 and Idaho, vessels in commission
( These two large craft will soon b
II 70
the new Turkish navy. That the
will be able 10 meet the three Turk
ish dreadnaughts on anything lik
equal grounds is doubtful, but thei
presence is giving some reassuranc
to Greece.
Greece is most anxious to keep tn
: peace. But it is believed general
, here that Turkey is resolved to er
. force her claims to the islands of tn
> Aegean sea the moment her dread
: naughts arrive. This moment is nc
. far off,
. The Hellenic government ha
: pushed forbearance to extreme lin
. its. The houses vacated by the Mo:
. lem em1grants from Macedonia WeT
left unoccupied until the influx {
= Greek refugees from Turkish terri
. tory obliged the authorities to quar-
. ter the homeless families there an
: even this was only provisions
; measure.
In the fortnight ending July 81 n
fewer than $4,000 Hellenes have bee
driven from their homes in Asia Mir
or, their moveable property plundel
ed, their houses and lands hande
over to Moslem immigrants an
themselves driven to the sea Goa:
without means of substenance.
the two previous months about so
900 had been subjected to simi1ia