Send For Bucknam To Stop Hamidieh.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 21, 1913:
Turks Apparently Unable to Prevent Famous Warship from Continuing Raids.
CAPTAIN IS AMERICANIZED
And It Seems to be Thought That Only Bucknam Can Persuade Him to End His Career of Destruction.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, June 20.— Bucknam Pasha, the American sailor of fortune who holds the position of Rear Admiral in the Turkish Navy, and who has been in London for some months with the Turkish peace envoys, is now devoting himself to raising capital to develop certain concessions granted to him by the Sultan.
    He has received an intimation that his presence is highly desired at the Sublime Porte because, it is rumored, he is the only person able to adjust a rather grim though humorous incident that has arisen since peace was declared.
    Raour Bey, the commander of the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh, which escaped from the Dardanelles during the war and carried on terrible destruction among the allies' ships, has, it is stated, apparently not heard that the war is over, and is continuing his programme of cruising through the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and destroying everything coming his way. The latest report was that he had captured a Greek transport, found four Turkish subjects of Greek nationality on board, and hanged them to the yardarm of his ship.
    It is believed that inasmuch as Raour Bey is a pupil of Bucknam Pasha and has been in America several times to study naval strategy, the Pasha is the only man who can convince him that the war is really over and persuade him to come home. Raour Bey is thoroughly Americanized and speaks English with an "American accent."
    Bucknam Pasha said to The New York Times correspondent:
    "I know Raour Bey well enough to believe that he did not hang the Greeks. He is not that kind of fellow, even though under the rules of war he had the power to hang the men.
    "I am also inclined to believe that he knows the war is over and is merely coaling at some foreign station before proceeding to Constantinople.
    "I have several important matters to report on to the Turkish Government that I cannot discuss, as they involve many millions of dollars of American and English capital and concern large reconstruction plans and projects for a railway and for military and naval bases."