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Show GERMANY BLOCKS TURK SURRENDER Peace Party Forces Vote to Send Emissaries to Negotiate Negoti-ate With Allied Fleet Commander. PLAN NIPPED IN BUD German General Threatens Court Martial for All Concerned Con-cerned and Deal Is Off. London, March 25. 4:45 p. in. The Evening Chronft le publishes a dispatch dis-patch from Bucharest. Rumania saying say-ing the Turkish government recently decided to surrender Constantinople and the Dardanelles to ihe attacking fleet. The surrender was all but arranged, ar-ranged, the Chronicle says, when at the last moment It was blocked by Germany. "The peace party forced a vote at a recent cabinet meeting to send emissaries, emis-saries, one of whom was the American Amer-ican ambassador. Henry Morgenthau, to the Dardanelles to negotiate with the commander of the allies fleet for the surrender of the straits and of Containtinople," says the Chronicle. "Just as everything seemed settled the German general, Llman Von San-1 dors, heard of the '.l.ui and njDJJptfl It with the threat ofrcn7ifI marllaTforj all concerned." j Ambassador Morgenthau made a visit of two days to the Dardanelles last week. Berlin, March 25, by wireless to Sayvllle The Hanover Courier is quoted by the Overseas News Agency as saying that the losses sustained by the allied fleet in the attack on the Dardanelles of March IS are estimated estima-ted at 1200 men killed, among them fifty on board the British battle cruiser crui-ser Inflexible This paper also says the allies lost 134 guns 00 |