Show THE dardanelles DARDA NELLES provision has been made for an international ter force along the darda nelles to guarantee free passage to ships of all nations through the straits and the sea of Alar marmora niora even our own mississippi or pennsylvania some day may inay rest tit at anchor in this deep swift strait 37 miles in length on tb beti between een the gooseneck goose neck peninsula of oi gallipoli Galli poll and the mainland of turkey or steam into the soft sea of mar moa and thence to the toi the die american jackies to oh lint and all ali 11 at the mosques and minarets mina ot of constantinople in the distance mention of the dardanelles Darda nelles conjures before the american mind the story of a fierce and add interest compelling fight in 1015 and 1010 1016 and a history which trails back into dim ma mythological th times when Le leandor Leand aDder cr swam siam across its three fourths Court lis mile width at every night to tell the lie same isalane old story to hero who hung her light out to inform him she wanted 0 to o hear bear it lord byron not to be outdone a as a swimmer by his predecessor did the in 1810 though it was regarded as rather a prodigious feat when these two accomplished it many modern athletes could don their trunks and visit their lady loves and regard the effort as a part of their training to keep physically fit dt xerxes in B 0 3 having hating an uncanny feling feeling that his thousands of Per persians sinns were mere not Billing tons and kellermann Keller mans lashed boats together as a bridgeway which herodotus tells tella us groaned tor for seven days and nights during the unloading of on oil the soil of europe alexander the great about years later before lie was reduced to tears at tile failure ot of the world to provide him excitement tried out lie thrill of xerxes by leading his macedonians Macedon ians into asia the approach by which rich the american soldier and sailor will alii enter constantinople stantin ople may well be likened to the entrance ont ranco to a dwelling house the dar canelles da nelles being the outside or storm door tile the sell sea of marmora the vestibule and the the inner door this storm door which Is about the width of the hudson river Is com coin mandod by the dardanelles Darda nelles castles built by bv Alo mohammed hammed 11 II in 1470 one fort fort Is on the european bide and one n on n the asiatic atle I 1 man AI ans guide books published before 1014 1914 carried tills this ominous and in prophetic sentence the castles on both sides have been lately restored and in armed alth w itji kanpp guns according to the treaty of july 1841 and tile paris peace ot of 1856 no foreign ship of war was allowed to enter the strait wilhoit the permission of turkey find and merchant vessels only during tho the daytime on the asiatic side a short distance from the fort lies the town or of darda nelles neles was name named tor for dirda dania D irda nus ilk alie e mythological ancestor ot of the trojan king Ae nep oil and hence of oe the roman itoman people this city of inhabitants situated prettily on a fertile forill ferill ill stretch of annd is tile point from which most of ih excursionists start for the plains of t troy a short dl distance beyond here too ships must stop to show their papers tile lic number N r of merchant ve Fels alone dining a 11 MD single gle year numbering more than across on oil the side Is gallipoli Galli Calli poll or beautiful town it was the arst town to ho he captured by the turks in 1357 superbly located on flip hi steel sleep projecting coat coast of the gallipoli peninsula it commands it a view of the asiatic side gide the plains of t frev ind and the broken foothills foot hills of mount ida on this narrow in april 1015 J allied forces wore were land candid ll 11 in art an attempt to capture the he dar darda nelles when the floods drove tile lie british fron from their trenches like rats out S or turkish snipers on the hills above picked biem off DIT almost its as fast falt as all they appeared the campaign was abandoned in january 1910 1916 |