GREECE & TURKEY
■<»»— ■'■■ FORMER LOOKING FOR WARSHIPS AMERICAN CONGRESS DISCUSSES , A PROPOSAL. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (TIMES AND SIDNEY SUN SERVICES.) NEW YORK, 22nd June. Congres* discussed a proposal to sell the battleships ■ Idaho and Mississippi to Greece. The Foreign Relations Com* mittee negatived the proposed, transaction 4 It is stated that President Wilson, favoured the sale, and that his influence is likely to prevail. [The Idaho and Mississippi atffe yes sels of 13,000 tons displacement, complefccd in 1908 at a cost of £616,360 each.] MINES IN THE .DARDANELLES. RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY. CONSTANTINOPLE, 23rd June. The decision to mine the Dardanelles has been, countermanded. Russian diplomacy is exerting influence on the Greek Patriarchate and the Porte to secure the reopening of Greek churches and schools. The tension is markedly slackening.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 148, 24 June 1914, Page 7
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