IN THE GOLDEN HORN.
REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF BRIDGE. LONDON;/August 3. Reports from Mitylene state that submarines hay/c blown up. the bridge ! between Staihooul and Galata.
[Stambour is" the Turkish name for Constantinople; but it is applied strictly to the main p'oJtion of the city. Constantinople consists of two distinct parts, besides moie distant suburbs— what m.iv be toinicd Christian Constantinople ("G.ii.ita, Pera, and Tophana), because it, i.s th^ie that the Chiistian coloino<- ci-ullv congregateThe two are separated by the famous Golden Horn, a crook ."bout five miles long and half a miloTwide at the entrance. There are two bridges across the Golden Horn, from the larger of which steamers start for various points in the Bosphorus and the Sea of Mariinora. This is probably the bridge referred to in the above message.]
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8208, 4 August 1915, Page 5
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