The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-22
OPENINGS FOR US.
CAPITAL IN TURKEY
Railroad Building Will Flour
ish if Sultan Wins War,
Says a Consul.
MANY LINES Projected
ny pR. WOLF voN sCHIERBRAND

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Vienna, July 22.-Akmed Hikmet
Bey. the Turkish Consul-General In
Budapest, told me the other day some
thing Of Turkeys plans for material
improvement in the event OF victory In
the war. He said
When the war is over Turkey means
to work hard for her intellectual and
material progress. a sounder and more
! productive system OF import duties will
aid us greatly. and to this n reform
in taxation will be added later. When
I mention prosperity I refer first to
greatly increased agricultural produc-
! ton. a more intensive style OF hus-
bandry. This will comprise an enlarge
ment OF the irrigation system. a sys-
TEN of canallzation and the construc-
ton OF more railroads, 80 that our
crops can reach the markets of the
world. The plains OF Adana and Meso-
potamia. for instance, yield even now
immense crops OF choicest grain, but 1t
\ cannot be shipped long distances.
W need more railroads. a whole
network OF them. to enable our products
to be shipped abroad. AZ present the
Okla (about two pounds) OF good wheat
. bread is sold In Turkey at three or four
! cents in American money. Quantities
o. melons. peaches and prunes go to
| waste NntN lUt yltlu IL "a Sc
Opening for Investment.
After the wal we shall be glad to
have American capitalists interest them
selves in railroad projects. About the
Bagdad road, a German enterprise, you
know, of course. II Will contribute
much to our prosperity. French capi-
talists obtained before the war conces-
sions for the construction OF nortl
Anatolian railroads. These conces-
sions. | presume. will not now be rati-
fed. What we need Is a second trans
verse road. starting at Haidar Pasha
and running diagonally through Ana
tolia, touching Herachea, kastamouni,
Amassia, Slvas, Divrik and Erzeroum,
and proceeding to Bayazid. on the Rus
sian border. reaching the Black Sea
bay a branc road. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I'VE require also a o from An
CORA, via Sivas and Diarbekir. TO
Bitlis. A number of small local lines
must act as feeders to these large veins.
The Hedjaz road. which runs as far as
Medina. we have built entirely with our
own means. a branch crosses the
Sinai peninsula and will eventually con-
meet with the Egyptian railway sys-
tenn, In Arabia, hitherto cruelty neg
lec,ed. we have built n line from Sarah
to Hodeldah, and this will bring the
Mecca bean OF Yemen TO the worlds
markets. The future.projects of course
p~resuppos our victory in the war"
Speaking OF the fighting in the Darda-
nelles. AHMED Hikmet Bey said he was
told recently by "a distinguished Ger
man General" Che meant Won der
Goltz Pasha) that the latter had mi
nutely examined the whole theatre OF
war there. and that in his opinion I,
IT H.A V.YRaN 1An .
500, 900 TO force It's way through. and
even then success would he doubtful
As for passing the Dardanelles with n
feet, that was wholly out OF the ques'
ton, even al the greatest sacrifice, Re
ports OF a lack OF harmony between
German and Turkish officers and mer
were entirely without foundation.
The German forces. both naval and
) military. defend our land with thS
same bravery and loyalty as their own
the official added. There was no rea'
son. he said, to anticipate a lack o.
/ provisions or famine for the Turkish
army or the capital. There was AZ
abundance Of -four, meat and veEe
tables, and the abstemiousness OF Turk
ish soldiers was we'll known.
) As regards the Suez Canal. he wen
on, there was no idea OF abandonins
that part OF the campaign. Silver bul
let's have been used against u.s." h
said, both with the Arab and BedoGi
7 tribes. more or less under British In
1 fuence. and in Egypt with the NATIVE
, population. But we shall resume often
sive operations there before long
He said that since Midhat Pasha'
4 time no Turkish Government had beer
\ so popular or 80 progressive as th'
, present one. Since the plot OF Sheri
e Pasha II Princ Sabah Eddeen hat
1 miscarried Turkey had been ONLY
slightly troubled by a relatively small
= fraction OF the Armenian population
' Some OF these Armenians had been in
l cited To rebellion by Russian machina
lions along sections Of the frontier dis
/ tricts aud some belonged to the Ar
menlan anarchist organization, tn
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