CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1904, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- COPYRIGHT.]

» THE DARDANELLES. DISCUSSION IN THE PRESS. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WARNED. • THE BLACK~SEA FLEET. Lpress association.] (Received December 6, 8.29 a.m.) LONDON, sth December. There is an active discussion in the European press— possibly "feelers"— in regard to Russia's desire fer the abrogation of a clause in the treaty relating to the Dardanelles. It is alleged that Germany, France, and Turkey are willing, but English newspapers warn the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour) against granting any concession. REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS. CAPTAIN CLADO'S ADVOCACY. — (Received December 6, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, sth December. Captain Clado's advocacy of the removal of restrictions on the Black Sea Fleet is eaid to be quite personal. i The Russian Foreign Office deprecates raising in' the public mind hopes which it is impossible to realise. [Yesterday a cablegram was published stating that the Russian journal Novoe Vremya, in a leading article — attributed to Captain Clado, one of the officers of the Baltic Fleet — had raised the Dardanelles question. The paper said : "It is unnecessary to consult Britain. The Treaty of Paris, which does ribt bind Japan, hampers Russia, but the Porte, for a consideration, might waive its advantages. Probably Britain would make a great outcry as in former years — aaid more recently, as in the Dogger Bank case — but it would come to nothing. Russia, in any case, would be able to offer something in exchange for Britain's consent."] TIMID DIPLOMATS REPROACHED. RUSSIAN PRESS COMMENTS. ST. PETERSBURG, 5tE December. Many Russian newspapers reproach the diplomats for timoreusness regarding the Dardanelles (through which a French vessel waa proceeding with shells for Batoum, a Russian port on the Black Sea, when she was stopped by the Turkish authorities). It is, however, authoritatively announced at St. Petersburg that the matter has not yet been officially raised.