The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14
FORCE LANDED
AT MYT|LENE
wARsH1ps OF co,rBurp FLEET
REACH THE PORT.
ULTIMATUM IS PRESENTED
Customs House and Telegraph ONCE.
Seixed-No Resistance Offered
Report That Sultan Has
Yielded to Powers.

warships of the combined feet arrived
here at eight clock this morning. Adj
miral Ritter Won Jedina, accompanied
by the Austrian consul, proceeded to
government house at 1890 O'Clock and
handed an ultimatum to the governor.
At one o'clock this afternoon 500 sail
ors landed and seized the customs and
telegraph offices. Everything is quiet"
Instructions to Fleet.
Constantinople, Via Sofia, Bulgaria,
Nov. 28.-The instructions to the COM
manders of the international fleet were
to land detachments and occupy
Mytilene at one O'Clock Sunday after
noon. unless contrary orders reached
them in the interim. Presumably.
therefore, the capital of the island is
now in the hands of the allied forces.
1t was arranged in the interview be-
tween Tewfik Pasha, the minister of
fdreign affairs, and the British and
Austrian ambassadors on Saturday
that If by eight o'clock Saturday night
the ambassadors received q written
notification from the foreign minister
promising acceptance of the demands
OF the powers, the ambassadors would
telegraph to the fleet at Mytilene to
suspend further operations until
Monday.
Says Sultan Has Yielded.
Vienna, Nov. 28.-The Nevue Erie
Presse Monday published a dispatch
from Constantinople saying that the
sultan through Tewfk Pasha,- the for
eign minister, has announced to Baron
Won Calico, the ambassador of Austria
Hungary, that Turkey accedes to the
demands of the powers regarding the
financial control of Macedonia.
Hard Problem for Fleet.
Washington, Nov. 28.-The situation
between Turkey and the European
powers having become so serious dur
ing the last few days, great interest
is felt in military and naval circles in
the question of the Turkish defenses
of the Dardanelles. 1t is we'll re-
membered that the English expedition
in 1907 under Sir John Duckworth to
the Dardanelles ended almost in dis
aster for the attacking fleet. Since
then conditions have changed greatly.
but Turkey has spent a good deal of
money on the defenses of the narrow
strait, and it is expected that she can
put up a successful fight against a
modern feet. The principal fortiti-
cations of the Dardanelles, which is a
narrow strait of about three miles in
length, are found on the end nearest
the sea of Marmora. At the entrance
in the Aegean there are two old cas-
ties transformed into new Notifications.
armed with Krupp guns of Is, "a and
% centimetres. The straits at that
point are about three miles broad.
then growing larger and afterwards
grow again much smaller, and at that
point the chief Notifications are built.
Island in the Straits.
The Dardanelles at that point is d.
vided into two straits by small is
land. On the European side there are
nine fortifcations. The first one of
these has 81 Krupp guns of 21 to IS
centimetres. On the Asiatic side
there are three well-armed fortifica-
tons. One of these has IL Krupp guns
of 50 centimetres each. These fortifi-
cations are manned by two regiments.
Their position is strong, and as they are
situated on the high banks of the
straits, they are able to hold up a
much larger naval force without great
danger to themselves. The only way
to make them harmless would be by
attacking them from the high hills on
the land side. To prevent this con-
tinual line Of Notifications has been
built closing the peninsula off from
the European side. These fortifica-
tons have all been luilt under the s,l-
pervision of European military author.
tiles and are we'll armed with the new
est guns. An attacking feet will have
the disadvantage of having to proceed
one by one, and although it is very
likely that the combined nations could
take some of the Turkish islands, the
opinion of many naval officers here is
that they. will not be likely to try to
sail UP to Constantinople.
An Army of Employees.
Washington, Nov. ga report re-
ceived Monday says the number of en-
ployes on construction work for the
Panama canal now aggregates 1900,
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