Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-11

Tho epic Of the Dardanclles began
in the NEUROLOGICAL ages and is not
ended. Much of the worlds history
has passed either through or across
the winding strait which separates
Europe and Asia and yet seems 10
form q connection between them. II
only the earlier name of this water
strip were OF Latin derivation, then
with classical authority we might can
the Dardanelles a bridge, but the
Hcllespont was Greek for Helle's sea.
Nevertheless, not only great armies
but whole civilizations have crossed
the tlcllespoutiue channel Far
reaching racial movements and con
flicts, before history emerged from
the vagucncss OF the remote past,
concentrated or touched at this point.
Since then heroic records have there
been written of.yast enterprises, some
that succeeded and some that failed,
for The making and unmaking of ma
lions the building and destruction of
empires, the conquest of continents.
Hardly anywhere else has geography
more importantly made history The
place is associated with the Argon-
auto legend which commentaries the
first maritime undertaking of ancient
times with the Trojan war and the
ancestry uf the Romans Through
Durdauus whose naue appears in
that of the pardaneilcsl; with the
long struggle between Greece and Per
STA, each for solf-prcservation and
world supremacy with significant
commercial events and conditions in
the middle ages.
The Dcstinics Of Nations.
Nearing the modern age we find
the ottoman Turks, i'm the latter half
Of the lith century, crossing the
bridge between the continents and es-
tablishing themselves n Europe by
1900 their empire covered the whole
Balkan peninsula, and extended north
beyond the Danube. The fall of CON
stantlnople in li63s marked the end
of the Roman empire in the East
The fleet of Mohammcd H. prior to
the actual siege, occupied the whole
channel between the Aegean and the
Bospoms, and transferred land forces,
with provisions and military stores,
from tho Asiatic bases to European
soil II was that year that the Jani-
carlos won their first fame in Europe.
Since The invasion the diminishing
Turkish empire has been a prolific
source of international plots, jealous
les and wars, ITS disposition constitu-
d "a. ., d
ton, which has not yet been downed,
Russa's designs ON Constantiuople,
from the time OF Catherine the Great
have hardly been the least productive
cause of squabbles among the nations
of Europe.
With the gateway from the Medi-
terranean TO the Black sea in the con-
troll of the Turks the nations of west
ern and central Europe in the 18th
and 10th centuries found the
last OF their accustomed trade routes
to the Orient virtually closed TO their
merchant ships A new impetus was
given TO exploration in the necessity
Of finding non-Mediteraneau routes,
! Diax. Nasco da CANA ana Columbus
spread tnClf SAILS. n revolution WAS
wrought in the economic conditions of
the world. Commerce ceased to be
! Mediterranean ana became oceanic.
! 1t was greater treasure house of
trade that the Turks had locked
lagainst the West hy their capture of
Constantnople The golden fleece of
/ Colchis, very likely represented the
spols OF the East in the early periods
of commercial enterprise, and the very
name OF the beautiful curved harbor
of Constantinople, "thc Golden Horn,
suggests the fact that the city was
the center of the worlds commerce
during the middle ages
The Turks We're not long in forti-
lying the Dardanelles, and in recent