Russian Trickery.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12179, 30 January 1903, Page 6

Russian Trickery.

PASSAGE>&F THE DARDANELLES. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraphl— Copyright: Constantinople; January 29. The third Russian torpedo vessel has passed the Dardanelles,'; . '. ';_ Article- 10 of the Treaty of Parity concluded after the Crimean War,- between Great Britain, AJustria, Prance, ' Prussia, Russia, Sardinia,^and Tor- :. -key is, as -follows :— "The - Contention. * , of .the 13th of July, , IS4I, vwhich'-- , fnaintains the ancient -rule of . ' ■ the f Ottoman Empire relative to the:clos»- . ing -of the Straits oi the Bosphbru* and of the Dardanelles, has been re- ' vised, by- common consent. The act . cbriclfeded^ for that purpose, and in, conformity with that principle, be'tweeni the high contracting parties, is "and -remains annexed to the present treaty, ; an3 shall, have the same' force and^vali<iity,.asUf it formed an integral part- thereof," Article 1 1 of the "Convention Ibetween; the^ same Powers annexed, to- the Treaty of Paris is afi follows:— "His Majesty " the- Sultany on the one part; .declares that,' he is firmly , resolved ' %o > t maintain for the , future, the principle invariably estab- • lished , as. the . ancient . rule.^of his 'empire^ ahd in , virtue of -which it" /has^ v-. at all times been "prohibited .for. the" ships of war of foreign Powers to en- ' . ter the Straits of the Dardanelles and . ;of the Bosphbfus ; arid, that, so Ipng i as the Porte is'at peaces His r Majesty will admit 1 no foreign ships' of, war, into the said Straits/. And .their. Majesties the Queen of the United King-.^ dom ;of Great Britain- and Ireland, ' the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of all the • Russias. and -they King' of Sardinia, on the other part?, engage to. respect thisi determination'of thiK Sultan/ and, to conform themselves „-tp the, principle ,„ above 1 declared." Acooxdinfg toy the „ stipulations of , the Treaty ofcTans, Russian ships in the Bl^ck, Sea ;'are " unable, to get into the Mediterranean; - And vice versa. The », Black" , Sea is,, in 1 fact, permanently shut up. j. Russia has long chafed against such. a."ly restriction. \ , '