The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-09
TURKEY

UNITED Press Leased Wire SERVICE
BERLIN, (via Amsterdam), Aug. g.
The Turkish battleship kheyr Ed
Din Barborossa. ono Of the largest
flohtInu units In tho Turkish navy
has been sunk in tho sea Of Marmora
by a British submarine. Part Of tho
crew was saved.
1.-THE Kheyr Ed Din Barbarossa was
formerly the German batt1eshfp Kur-
furst Friedrich Wilhelm and was pur.
chased from Germany in 1910. when
she became one Of the principal units
in the Turkish fleet. She displaced
$500 tons and normally carried
crew of $40 men. She was built at
Stettin in 1891 and was 354.3 feet long
with a GA foot beam. The kheyr Ed
Din Barbarossa carried as major
pieces four 11-inch forty calibre guns
and two 11-inch thirty-five calibre
guns.1
Wipina Out Europe.
[By Henry Wood. United Press stan
Correspondent
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 3.-(By
courier to Dedegatch, thence by
cable)-In a determined effort to
eradicate from the Ottoman empire
all traces Of things European, the
young Turks have just ordered the
removal of all business signs written
either in Latin or Roman characters.
Only Turkish characters can be used
hereafter In signs and ADVERTISE
ments. The same order applies to
druggists prescriptions. The, order
became effective yesterday and Con-
stantinople arose today to find her.
self the greatest labyrinth Of mystery
in the world. Two-thirds Of the city's
1,500 900 Inhabitants are Greeks, Ar
menians, Jews and natives of other
countries. They have a slight speak
ing knowledge Of the Turkish tongue
but know little of the Turkish printed
characters. Strangers found 1t ex-
ceedingly difficult to get about and
the average citizen could not tell
you from Its sign whether a building
harbored a hotel or a stable.
The removal of the European Ian
guage signs continued all day yester-
day, several thousand men being en-
ployed. No line of business was ex-
empted. Even doctors and lawyers
were compelled to take down their
brass plates and substitute Turkish
characters or go without. Most 0s the
foreign professional men who could
not read their own names printed in
Turkish, chose the latter course.
American firms were hard hit
Standard OIL, the Singer Sewing Ma,
chine Co. and typewriter concerns
had thousands Of signs and adver-
tisements all over the city painted
in English and west European Ian
guages. In some instances they
saved their signs by obliterating the
English words and leaving only the
pictures of sewing machines and
typewriters on their posters.
The pharmacists made vain efforts
to convince the government that the
carrying out of the order worsld en-
danger the health of the community.
They pointed out that all medical
formulas had their basis in the Latin
languages and said 1t would be impos-
sible to overturn the precedents Of
centuries. The government in reply,
invited the pharmacists to keep the
prescriptions and their bottle labels
in Turkish or go out Of business. An
other section of the order prohibited
children from wearing sailor caps
bearing on their band the name of
any battleship save one Of the Turk
ish navy. German and Austrian mer-
chants obtained one slight conces-
sion. They were permitted to have
their signs written in the language
of their countries provided Gothic
and not Roman or Latin characters
were used