America s Fliers Alone Permitted to Cross Turkey Other Globe Girders Forced to Travel by Way of Greece; Tricks Feared. By IiOWKIiL THOMAS (Copyrtshr. 111:15.1 Of all the expeditions that started out to circumnavigate the globe by air the only one allowed to use the historic bridge from Asia to Europe via Constantinople and the Golden Horn was the Amer ican world flight. The others were (obliged to take the much longer route by way of Greece, the island of Crete, across the Medlter ranean to northern Africa, and finally from Egypt to Bag , • dad by way of the <- , .'Suez canal, the i Hlnal desert, the , „,?!* Holy Land, Para k'jr,«LjL ascus, and Northern ^ yi Arabia. The Turks had not welcomed the Idea of foreign airplanes flying over their country. Like the Japan ese, they at first thought it might merely be a clever'way of getting pictures of their country from the air. They had not yet forgotten that they had been tangled up in a great world war years before. So it required a great deal of maneuvering for the Americans to convince the Turks that they should change their minds. Although Nelson and AVade thought that. Lowell Smith would have better luck than Moses as a navigator, they preferred to avoid the Sinai desert If possible. By flying to Europe via Constantinople and whizzing across the Hellespont at the rate of a 100 miles an hour they could save them selves the long and unnecessary water hop acro-s the Mediterranean. Ho the Turks nt last agreed, and thus It was that the American world flier- were the first to look down trim tii- shy mi the Black sen. the B). noru-i, and the Hen of Marmora Wh'i f. dig over tile Golden Horn ftom Asia to Europe by the route mad? ms during, the many thou send J • ir old stru'fjtle between orient and 01 -blent, between Persian and Gri -k. Eoiii in and I’omlan, Byzan tine and Mo:--1-mii, Crusader and Sar Bean, and made still more famous luring the late Ball an wars and the I bitter fighting between the allies anil Turks at C.T'oli and the L> rdan slles. Best Aim of Trip. Nor would they trade tliajr experl ?nco for a good deal, The -American world fliers agree that the view they] had of Constantinople from the air wag one of the high spots of their lourney round the globe. Of all the cities over which they flew, as a won derful picture, as a spectacle that M’ould inspire a poet or an artist, Con stantinople far surprehsed Shanghai, Hongkong, Bangkok, Rangoon, Cal cutta, the seven cities of Delhi- the coral city of Bushire on the Persian gulf, or ever romantic Bagdad. "Our first glimpse of this city hlch has stood here on the Golden orn for nearly 3,000 years, . ami ilch the French rightly call la Sub ue Porte, was of Skutari on the dutic shore," says Commander IiO . oil Smith. "But almost at the same moment the minarets and domes of the mosques of Stamboul appeared just beyond. "It was one of Ihe best flying days ' had. The visibility was so perfect it we could see tor 100 miles or tie In every direction—far out > er the plains of Turkey to th» i lutii, out over the Black sen whence tnson and the Argonauts sailed in Uearch of the Golden Fleece, to the -i-.st of Gallipoli, and to the south to word Bulgaria. Telegraph Haphazard. "Admiral Bristol, the American am bassador to Turkey: Lieutenant Hal verson, who had made all our ad vance arrangements In the countries over which we had just flown: Major A\ alsh, who had proceded us across Europe, and a number of our other countrymen, were at Han Stephano Malting for us. But it was only by chance that they happened to be thpre. Due to the Inefficiency of the telegraph in that part of the world the wires we had sent from Bagdad and Aleppo had never reached them. They had merely gone out to the aerodrome on a hunch that we might arrive. Even as far as Pari*, tele graphic communlcatjons In Europe are haphazard. In an airplane you can nearly always make quicker lime than a telegram, and frequently the letter never arrives at all. " After working from 2 o'clock un til 4:30 we drove In to the city, but there wasn't any official entertain ment that night owing to the fact that no one knew we were coming So we enjoyed ourselves wondering about the streets seeing all that We could of this city where the rsees of earth meet, each without abandon Ing hi* own national costume, and without adopting any of the customs of the Turks. "Although the greatest of all the rallies of Islam, the first thing we mtssed was the yashmak, the Mohanv medan veil. The women of Turkey have at last taken this first step; toward freeing themselves ifrom the bondage of the harem. But the ab sence of the veil made it difficult for u* to tell the difference between Turkish. Georgian, Armenian, Gre cian, Bulgarian, Italian and Russlin women. American Girls Prrttiest "AA'e are often asked In what coun try we found the most, beautiful women Just why this question should be asked of us we do not quite under stand. The only members of our party who might lay any claim at all to be ing authorities on this delicate and alluring subject are the three who oc cupied the rear cockpits For example Mies' and 'Hnilllng Jack’ Insist that by far the most beautiful women we saw from the time we left Puget sound until we landed In New Eng land, were the American girls we met In Shanghai. To this the rest nf us • II say. 'Mere! Here' Then. n»xt In order 'Lee' puls the Russian l>eau t!-s whom we saw (from a dlstancci In Constantinople. Third In classlfl ration be puts th" Itumanlnns. "Accofciiing tv th* original *Al>ed ule we were supposed to spend four ■ days and the shores of the Bosphorus. But we were anxious to reach Paris by Bastiie day, which was only four days away, and then proceed on our long flight across the North Atlantic with the least possible delay. We w-auld have taken off for Bucharest next morning if It hadn't been that the Turkish officials were extremely anxious to inspect our cruisers. With customary eastern hospitality they implored us to stay with them for a week or so, but when wp explained that we had been flying from eight to 1ft hours a day, working until af ter dark getting our planes in shape, and then getting up before dawn nearly every morning in order to get [around the world as fast as possible, ithey agreed to look over the planes the following afternoon. We found the Turks exceedingly courteous peo ple, and their officers were «s snap py looking a crowd of men as we had met. I I.eave East Behind. "Next morning we were up at dawn again and took off from the San Ste phano field at 7:30. As we turned and took our last look back at the re ceding shores of the vast continent of Asia, across which we had flown for so many days, it seemed to us that Constantinople was indeed ‘the quintessence of the east,’ the most mysterious and picturesque of all the cities we had seen from the day we first arrived in Japan. But the mo ment we were out of sight of the minarets of Sultan Ahmet^ mosque and the rugged old castles that face each other on opposite sides of the Bosphorus, we somehow could feel that we had left the east behind. Per haps it was merely our imaginations, but all of us had the same experi ence. As we looked down out of our cockpits at the fields of Thrace, the wind blew up our ‘shorts’ and flew over many of the battlefields where the Turks and Greeks had waged I war quite recently. There were rows ! and rows of trenches, demolished I bridges, ruined villages and towns, -and fields pockmarked with shell i holes. "We took a course slightly north | west from Constantinople, and cross ed the Balkan mountains into Rou mania. At noon we landed on the areodrome of the French Roumanian Areo company, but there wasn't a soul to meet us. Even I he American consul thought we were 2,000 miles way. The . people of Bucharest, al lhough they live next door to Turkey hadn't even heard that we had reach ed Constantinople." Wheat Held on Farms. ;i Heat rice. Jan. 14.—J. It. Wilson, 'manager of the farmers’ elevator «: Pivkrell, says little grain has been marketed there during the last few week’s. He believes considerable wheat is being held by the farmers, but in his opinion there is little corn left in the country. \ D V F.RTISE1IFNT. Can You Sleep AUNight? Or Moit Yob Get Up Frequently Bj Beuen of Bladder Trouble ? If so T would like to send you a samrle rtf m; Home Treatment so you --an livft it » trial. 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