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Show 50 BATTLESHIPS FOIWfiOfl Huge Fleet Anchors in Bos-phorus, Bos-phorus, Representing Three Powers. CONSTANTINOPLE, "Wednesday, Nov. 13. (By the Associated Press.) There were fifty British, French and Italian battleships, cruisers and destroyers in the allied squadron which anchored today to-day in ,tho Bosphorus. The newspapers and the population acclaim the allied squadron as deliverers. The headquarters of the British and French contingents have been establish, I in Constantinople. A British aerial force Is on the outskirts of the city. Food prices In Constantinople, according to the Turkish finance minister, have risen twenty times above those ruling before the war. Disorganization of the railroads In Asia Minor today compelled the government gov-ernment to abandon the ration of cheap bread which it issued during the war. Of the fifty-nine officers and men who have remained with the United States gunboat Scorpion in the Golden Horn since diplomatic relations were severed, twenty-five have married Levantine women. Nearly all the American missions, except ex-cept those in Constantinople and Smyrna, have been occupied by the Turkish army, notwithstanding that all have been engaged en-gaged in relief work. Of about seventy Americans in educational and relief work in Turkey, all are reported well. One thousand Germans and Austrians, including General Liman von Sanders. German commander-in-chief of the Turkish Turk-ish army, who fled from Damascus and Aleppo, remain in Constantinople and the neighborhood. Their exit across the : Black sea has been cut off by the Ru- , manians and by disorders in Odessa. i Among the members of the new Turkish Turk-ish cabinet headed by Tewfik Pasha, is Dr. Kiza Tewfik, an instructor in the American college for girls in Constantinople. |