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Show AT MERCY OF RUSSIA. Dardenelles Question as Viwed by the English. In a dispatch from Constantinople, in which he discussed the Dardenelles question, tne correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph declares that the real object of the treaties was to safeguard Turkey from sudden attacks by sea, but that the effect of them has been to place her entirely at the mercy of Russia. "So long as the straits are closed," says the correspondent, "nobody can get at Turkey, either to assist or threaten her, while the way is always al-ways open for Russia with her powerful pow-erful Black Sea fleet, to seize and hold the Dardenelles against all comers, thus securing at one blow the whole of Turkey above the Dardenelles. "Russia's whole policy, therefore, is to preserve the status quo and to prer vent any disturbance likely to afford the powers a pretext for raising the Dardenelles question. Russia has always al-ways forced Turkey to settle her disputes dis-putes when she saw that any power was going to act." |