APPENDIX I.

PAY OF THE TURKISH ARMY.
 

The same for all branches of the Service.
No. of rations allowed	Monthly pay in Piasters	Rank in Turkish	Corresponding rank in Engliash
Virtually unlimited	14,000	Ferik Pasha	General of Division
Virtually unlimited	7,000	Liva Pasha	General of Brigade
16	4,500	Mirialai	Colonel
12	4,000	Kaimakam	Leiut.-Colonel
8	1,800	Binbaschi	Major
5	700	Collasi	Captain
4	400	Yuzbaschi	Lieutenant
2	250	Mulazim	Ensign.
Non-commissioned Officers
1	80	Basch Chiaousch	Serjant Major
1	60	Sera Chiaousch	Serjeant
1	50	Benlikemineh	Pay-sergeant
1	40	Onbaschi	Corporal
1	25	Nefer	Private
1	60	Harmandar	The Fourrier of the French Army
1	80	Demirji	Armourer
1	80	Marangos	Wheelwright
1	60	Nalbant	Farrier
1	40	Sakka	Water-carrer

The Talimji baschi (in French, Adjutant Major) receives 1700 piastres monthly.
 

RATIONS. (Tain.)
(Roughly, 10 drams may be counted as equal to 1 oz. avoirdupois.)

Bread	300 drams	per diem
Meat	30        ,,
Fat	12 1/2   ,,
Rice	15        ,,
Soap	30        ,,	per mensem
Candle	20        ,,

A new uniform, shirt, boots, &c., are served out every two years.

The Turkish private soldier has to spend (owing to the bad quality of his uniform and the long time that Government supposes it to last) at least 400 piastres per annum, out of his own pocket, for clothes. In addition to this, if he is receiving pay and rations he must spend 60 paras (1 1/2 piastre) per diem in food, tobacco, &c., making 547 piastres annually, in addition if he receives neither, as is frequently the case, he must keep himself, which he can do upon 3 piastres per diem or 1095 piastres per annum.

Thus we see that the pay and rations of the Turkish soldier being both insufficient to keep him, he is obliged whilst serving in the army to possess private means amounting (at least) from 947 to 1495 piastres per annum. [These latter calculations are taken from information supplied by soldiers.]

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