A FAMOUS WATERWAY. —A picturesque view from the deck of a steamer as the vessel passes through the Bosphorus, the famous channel at the northern end of the Straits of tile Dardanelles, which connects the Sea of Marmora with the Black Sea. Constantinople, one of the principal cities of Turkey, is built at the entrance to the Bosphorus. One of the knotty points in the recent Turkish-Russian talks arose when the Turkish Cabinet refused to close this waterway to warships of the Allied forces.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 7
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84A FAMOUS WATERWAY.—A picturesque view from the deck of a steamer as the vessel passes through the Bosphorus, the famous channel at the northern end of the Straits of tile Dardanelles, which connects the Sea of Marmora with the Black Sea. Constantinople, one of the principal cities of Turkey, is built at the entrance to the Bosphorus. One of the knotty points in the recent Turkish-Russian talks arose when the Turkish Cabinet refused to close this waterway to warships of the Allied forces. Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 7
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