[Illustration: FROM THE DARDANELLES TO THE BLACK SEA This Map Shows the Route of the Allied Fleets on the Way to Constantinople, The Principal Fortified Places Are Clearly Indicated.

The spot near to where they disembarked was marked by several large cannon-balls of granite; for the ruins of Alexandria have long supplied the fortresses of the Dardanelles with these gigantic missiles.

The Breslau was a former German ship, and was said to have been purchased by the Turkish government, with the German battleship Goeben, when they sought refuge in the Dardanelles at the beginning of the war, from the French and British fleets in the Mediterranean.

The bombardment of the Turkish forts in the Dardanelles by the allied warships was continued.

She requires the free navigation of the Dardanelles for all nations.

After their disastrous attempt to run the Dardanelles in March, the English and French had been somewhat in the position of an army trying to capture Jacksonville, Florida, for instance, and instead of marching over from Georgia, compelled to go away down to Key West, and fight their way up through the Everglades.

The first case which we consider to be that of a distinctly broken treaty is that of sending the warships of England through the Dardanelles without the consent of the Sultan of Turkey.

Fortunately the next day the "Falcon" received orders to proceed to the Bosphorus, and got up her anchor and steamed up the Dardanelles before dark.

Instead he enlisted in the Horse Artillery, became a Corporal, and went to the Dardanelles as a Despatch Rider.