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Show FOREIGNERS ARE HELD BY TURKS British and French Subjects Detained by Minister of War at Constantinople. Washington Nov ?.. The Turkish minister of war ordered detained a special train bearing British and French subjects from Turkey which Ambassador Morgenthau had arranged on Sunday to leave Constantinople. The minister of war declared that until Turkish subjeds in Bgypt ar well as England and France were given giv-en assurances of protection and per mltted to leave the country, all Brit iah and French subjects would be held ln Turkey. Ambassador Morgenthau cabled the American government that, before tho British ambassador left, he had given Mr Morgenthau assurances that all Turkish subjects In the British empire em-pire would be permitted to leave Mr Morgenthau s latest dispatch, dated 0 p m. Sunday, said that be had been Informed by a member ol the Ottoman cabinet of the sinking of two Turkish vessels by the British il,, i ofl the Port of Smyrna and th" i rosslng of Russian troops on tin-frontier tin-frontier of Erzerun The cablegram from the American ambassador revealed that the British, Fiench and Russian ambassadors fi nallv gt away from Constantinople B special train at 12 o'clock midnight mid-night Sunday. I |