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Show TURKEY'S BAD .BREAK. A Haitian Wnr.hlp lirotiKt t to Under th. tiuo. of the Oarilanell... Constantinople. April 14. The Russian warship belonging to the volunteer vol-unteer fleet litted out by popular suU-' scription was stopped by the Turkish authorities on duty at the Dardanelles. Th Russian vessel wa-woeeedih on its way to Valdivastock, Asia, near the northern limit of Corea on the Sea of Japan. She is loaded with railroad material ma-terial and had as passengers a largo number of military workmen, who according to I he terms used by the Russians who are detailed to construct the trans-Siberian railroad. Tho officer in command of the Russian ship, upon being brought beneath the guns of the fojt of the Dardanelles, immediately im-mediately appealed to the Russian ambassador am-bassador at Constantinople, Denelidoff, who in turn entered the strongest pro- test possible with the Turkish officials of this city. Denelidoff claimed in warm terms that the action of the Turkish Turk-ish officers at the Dardanelles is in direct di-rect and llagrant violation of the commercial com-mercial treaties existing between Kus-sia Kus-sia and 'Turkey. Alter considerable interchange in-terchange of views on the subject the Porto finally came to the conclusion that it would be (inadvisable to detain the war ship any fusther and she allowed her to pass The action of the Turkish authorities in stopping the Russian war ship is taken on the ground of the treaty of 1841, concluded in that year by the five great lowers and Turkey, hy which it was decided that no ship belonging to any nation, save Turkey, should pass the Dardanelles without the express consent of Turkey. |