A PERILOUS JOURNEY.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10457, 4 November 1904, Page 2

A PERILOUS JOURNEY.

■kusslv's forlorn hopetjhe; ibilagk sea squadron. Will it be allowed ;out? Oleoeived Friday LlO p-m-) LONDON, Nlovoinber 3. It is staited that Russia will endoavcru.r to arrange with Turkey terms on which the Black Sea squadron will bo able to make tho passage of the Bosphorusi and the Dardanelles a.nd thus co-operate with the .sniiiller Russian vessels which: are to journey through; the Mediterranean and Red Seas into "the Indian Ocean. Tire lairgo vessels, probably all thu battleship's, will make the journey via, tho Capo of Good Ilope(It may be assumed first: of nil that when such a. Power a>» Great Britain i» cionccrncid 1, tho neutrality of U:o Bosphorus would .be strictly eni'oi'i.^d Uy Turkey, in tennia of tlie Berlin Treaty, .and that tha Russian. Blacik Sea squadroni would bo Bealc<l \ip in if« own -waters- A.ssiutining, howevor, thaft Tui'koy should be unaHe to omiti to Fulfil her treaty obligations, then the British Mediterranean fleet would have to combat the Russian squadrons of tlie Mediterranean and the Black iSe-a. Tho former is merely a distincti portion of tlw latter-)