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Show wmm navy Sir Douglas Gamble Is Lent by England to Organize It. Other British Officials Are Instructing Instruct-ing the Zealous Turks In Gunnery, the Use of Torpedoes, Navigation Naviga-tion and Machinery. Constantinople. While a German officer is occupied with reorganizing the army of the Young Turks, a British Brit-ish admiral. Sir Douglas Gamble, will endeavor to turn out a new navy. He has been lent for tie purpose by the British government, and there are with him the following Instructors: Lieut. Tottenham, gunnery; Lieut. Gwynne, torpedoes; Lieut. Faught, navigation, and Engineer Lieut. Crois-dale, Crois-dale, machinery. Thanks to the enlightenment and zeal of Admiral Arif Pasha, minister of marine, a great deal of preparatory prepara-tory work was got through before the arrival of Admiral Gamble, so that the latter found much better material to work upon than he had been led to expect. The vessels had all been docked and active young officers placed in command, several of whom had acquired ac-quired a certain amount of experience by service in foreign navies. Steam and gun trials had taken place In Marmora, Mar-mora, and a squadron had made a cruise in the archipelago. The younger naval officers are all very keen as regards their profession, and as many have a good knowledge of English, they have not failed to acquire such information as could be obtained from reading English naval periodicals and books. Much translating work has been done since what might be termed the "emancipation of the navy" took place, and" the instructors will find their task much lightened by the zeal and willingness of both officers and men. 1 The first fruit of the British admiral's admir-al's work is to be seen in the dispatch of the fleet for a short evolutionary and exercise cruise in the Sea of Marmora, Mar-mora, preparatory to a more extended one in the Mediterranean. The ironclads and cruisers, as they were prepared for sea. made their Rear Admirai D. A. Gamble, R. N, steam trials and then proceeded to the rendezvous, the historical anchorage anchor-age of the Princess islands, to await the arrival of the flagship. The Mes-sudieh, Mes-sudieh, with Admiral Gamble's flag at the masthead, arrived the other afternoon, after-noon, and for the first time In many years the echoes of the island group were awakened with the thunder of the guns in the salute to the commander-in-chief. Not since the last war with Russia, when the British fleet, under Sir Geoffrey Geof-frey Hornby, took up the same anchorage an-chorage for the protection of Constantinople, Con-stantinople, has a similar event taken place on account of the abhorrence In which the ex-sultan held the sound of anything like a cannonade. |