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Show i TURKISH ARMY TO j-:: j-:: BE PUT UPON STRONG i: t FIGHTING BASIS J ! Special Cable lo The Tribune. ! CONSTANTINOPLE. Feb. 12. r Shefkct Pasha, the now minister of -J- war, Intends to thoroughly rcor- I ganizc tlie Turkish army, and the I- navy also Is lo be put on a sound 4 fighting basis. German Ideas will y prevail In the army and linglish in -i-v the navy. The old days of graft. when ammunition and supplies were r regarded as personal, perquisites of I- commanding officers and the very :- 'ngines of warships were sold by -r r their officers, is lo be ended. Shef- 4 -I- kot Pasha, in an interview, said. J "Surprise Is expressed that the -I- Turkish army has adopted German -J- methods and has employed German j. ofileers. How could it be oilier- v v wise, when General von Moltke came to Turkey, fully eighty years v ago. and himself built the nucleus ! oi the present Turkish army, which -l' you may see from this antedated the reorganization of the present-v present-v day army of France? And then. It y senis to me ' that in our navv. j- English regulations aio in effect v which were introduced, lung ago by English officers. In act. the com- -! ; mander-in-chlef of our fleet is an !- Englishman, and he plaits shortly to v -2- bring other officers from his native . lanuV' . |