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Show I Squadron Enters the 11 Bosphorus and Visits Fort. U. S. SEAMEN SAFE j Half of Scorpion's Crew ! Married to Levantine 1 2 Women, I I CONSTANTINOPLE, Wednesday, i i Nov. 13. There were fifty British, French and Italian battleships, cruis- nlljj ers and destroyers in the allied squad- i j ron -which anchored today In the Bos- Iff phorus. The newspapers and the pop- ulation acclaim the allied squadron as il w jj i deliverers. fjU The headquarters of tho British and nfl ' French contingents have been estab- I i lished in Constantinople. A British all I aerial force is on the outskirts of the f jt Food prices in Constantinople, ac- 11 1 cording to the Turkish finance rainis- ter, have risen twenty times above K,f those ruling before the war. Disorgan- i Mi ization of the railroads in Asia Minor ill today compelled the government to IK abandon the ration of cheap bread 1 which it issued during the war. Kg Of the fifty-nine officers and men 9E who have remained with the United States gunboat Scorpion in the Golden fiflj Horn since diplomatic relations were ! $ severed, twenty-five have married Le- I liS vantlne "women. V 8 Nearly all tho Americaji missions, iS' except those in Constantinople, and innj Smyrna have 'been occupied by the iS Turkish army notwithstanding that all Imi have been engaged in relief work. Of Ik! about seventy Americans in educa- ijjtKi tional and relief work in Turkey all are IW'UR i reported well. v fili! ' ne lnousancl Germans and Aus- UM ', ixians, including General Liman von Ei; Sanders, German commander In the Inti I Turkish army who fled from Damascus ijjffji and Aleppo, remain in Constantinople and the neighborhood. Their exit lift! across the Black sea has been cut off fill! ky tne Rumanians and by disorders in Odessa. E j Among the members of the new nm& i Turkish cabinet headed by Tewfik H Pasha, is Dr. Riza Tewfik, an instruc- RlfflS' tor n tbe American college for girls Hng ! In Constantinople. vim 1 oo |