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Show ENGLAND DECLARES WAR MTURKEf SIMILAR ACTION TAKEN BY FRANCE AND OTHER NATIONS ! EXPECTED TO FOLLOW SUIT. Turks and Russians are Already Fight- ing, It Being Reported That the Turkish Fleet H'as Been Driven From the Black Sea. London. Developments on land and tea and in the diplomatic situation rolled up fast on Thursday, cementing cement-ing Turkey firmly in her warlike position. po-sition. ! The Russian admiralty announced official that the Turkish fleet has been driven from the Black sea and is now effectively bottled up in the Bosphor-us Bosphor-us with the Russian Black sea fleet etanding guard at the entrance. On the Caucasian frontier Turkey Is stated to have massed 100,000 fcroops, including 25,000 cavalry and 'over 10 batteries of artillery with guns of heavy caliber and newest ype. General Sanders Pasha is in command of this army, which already la reported to have taken village! .along the frontier. This report comes Ifrom an apparently authentic Turkish eource. The Russian foreign office, on the (other hand, declares officially that thi Russian Caucasian army which is invading in-vading Turkey has advanced several miles into Turkish territory and has occupied several Turkish villages, driving the Turks before them, j Great Britain and France on Thursday Thurs-day formally declared war upon Turnkey Tur-nkey and it is expected that similar ac-jtion ac-jtion will be taken immediately by Russia, Servia, Montenegro and possibly pos-sibly by Belgium and Japan. Persia also is expected to act soon. Turkey is trying to force the Persian govern ment to declare war against Russia. Great Britain is now waiting for some definite action on the part of the Balkan Bal-kan powers. England also formally announced the annexation of the island of Cy-pruB Cy-pruB in the Mediterranean. Cyprus, though nominally owned by Turkey, has been practically a British possession posses-sion for years, because Great Britain has administered it. Cyprus is the third largest island tn the Mediterranean, with a population popula-tion of 275,000. It is sixty miles from the coast of Asia Minor and forty 'miles from the Syrian coast. The defensive alliance between Great Britain and Turkey have been annulled by the outbreak of the war, the British government decided that It was necessary to appropriate the Island in order that proper provision might be made for its government and tor its protection. |