Show SE MORNING hiSTORIES NY STORIES TO BE HEARD IN TURKEY ors Are Slightly Ex Ex- Says Writer ff e in Constantinople i Sept 4 As t. As IlC of oC some of ot tho remarkable rumors afloat In the Turkish cap cap- the Associated Press had cir cir- und that thal the following Ion lon and cr credence among a a. large er er of ot Greeks and Armenians am and llomo gome somo uninformed Turks were enI en- en at American en engineers w I 1 In in dl digging gln a canal across tho j-bw j oW bw part of oC tho tio that hat the French Anglo-French allies had hadt t and put into operation a a. rall- rall fr twenty five kilometers long ons- ons and the tIie allies were now bus busy rebuild rebuild- tho iho Greek towns along alons- tho the Darlles Dar- Dar lies lies lles and the Aegean sea which destroyed during the various Lastly that tho ich cli and English would bo be masters li lie he Dardanelles Sea of or Marmora the the within fourteen Sere ue ere are of oC course coure no American L I 1 builders anywhere re near the there is no such railroad Iho ho ho allies are aro said to have ha built buill Greek towns are in ruins as bek be- be k and tl the tho o fourteen day period al ald ali al- al sd d i for tho the penetration of ot the theis Its is is recurrent recurrently prolonged Often Heard fhe he rumors mentioned are arc not thet tho the it t extravagant ant that one hears in they are mere merely those tl I 1 most often orten and seemingly be bead bed bed be- be ad d by a a. large number of oC the eks ks ks and Armenians king eking enUs as to the realtor rca rea for tor such mch an odd rumor as the nce of ot r American Americ n canal diggers correspondent learned from a ak ak tk k resident that the allies had en- en cd d 1 American engineers to dig I en-I tho the thop p canal because tho they had such ess In canal building at Panama that the object of ot the cana canal ugh Sh the Gallipoli peninsula was ifford a a. cha channel for tho tim allied fleet leet reach each Constantinople without hayto hav- hav to to pass tho ho Dardanelles' Dardanelles forts so 80 strength th no one one here even ks and Armenians longer doubt he suggestion sUS that such a canal aid Id be the ta tak I of several se years altogether thel lost on the man who I me rumor phe he report that tho the allies have built military railroad from Sid Bahr point twenty o kilometers I ii h is even more wide widely 1 believed If truth is that the tho allies have o to tox x the railroad In circles in order ake 51 tt twenty-five twenty kilometers In th unless It penetrated the Turk- Turk Mines lines Ln n of ot the American n II Constantinople had been so 50 im- im sed ed with these reports of oC tho the rall- rall building in fact Cacti that even cven ho eged the Associated Press corre- corre ident adent for Cor or tho the truth vy ivy Penalty he activity of ot persons who such rumors as arc are calculated to toI toly toly I ly Impress tho the populace with the thees thees es of oC the allies gives Ives the mill mill- authorities considerable trouble penalty for such an offense ma may maya a S much as six years years' imprison imprison- t t I and a fine CIne that may mean the of oC all tho the property the has But Dut even cven this drastic ure does docs not make tho the rumor gem gers more careful Almost daily a an an n 11 of ot such cases are disposed of oC varying results A few Cew nl nights ta a meteor fell feU near Constantinople Career o of the tho celestial wanderer In ns ing to an end with a 0 vivid flash lash Ight and a sharp explosion The Thet t da day it Il was as asserted b by rumor t a a. British aeroplane had luul thrown bs upon the buildings of oC the tho Sub- Sub o 0 Porte he Che disposition of oC the Constantino- Constantino newspapers however to publish the facts that the they can obtain was shown In the reproduction h by t of tf the newspapers here of ot some he the dispatches which had been Corded for for- ded to America by tho the Associated as correspondent They were pub- pub ed cd merel merely as showing what a n nuI nu- nu u- u I 1 correspondent had found on the |