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Show Turkey's Raid Navy. A naval awakening is being forced nn the Sublime- Pone by the visit of the German emperor. The condition of the Turkish fleet is so bad, costly ironclads have been allowed to rust into decay so long in the waters of the Bosphorus, that the Ottoman government would be wise not to offer anv maritime display to so kern a critic, so good a judge, as the Emperor William. Corruption, and incapacity in-capacity combined have made what might have been an important factor in a European war a mass of useless metal. Uobart Pasha was a strong man, but lie was not strong enough to get the dockyard dock-yard men paid their wages when they were due. In uo part of the Turkish treasury is there such gross dishonesty as in that which has to do with the navy. If $1,000,000 were put at the disposal dis-posal of the government to-morrow for naval purposes probably not one-tenth of the sum would be really expended in fulfilling them. Loudon World. |