The surprise of the week has been the fate of
the 'Goeben' and the 'Breslau.' The two ships when they escaped from the Straits of Messina steamed at top speed into the Aegean and then entered the Dardanelles, and were sold to the Turks—an amaaing end for one of the swiftest and most powerful battle cruisers in the world, but quite in keeping with other events in a war where everything is upside down, and Belgian militia cavalry act the part of Uhlans and Mamas that of slow, heavy, muddle-headed Yeomanry ! Britain, of course, will have something to say to the Turks, and, we trust, something very severe, as to this strange reading of the duty of neutrals, but meanwhile the Goeben ' and the ' Breslau' must be stauck off the muster roll of the enemy's fleet—a matter of no small importance. Other important results may follow from this piece of German policy. We note that a telegram from Rome to the Star on Friday states that Italy is much perturbed by the transaction, and does not mean to allow the equilibrium of the Lower Mediterranean- to be threatened. That looks like an understanding with Greece.
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