Minneapolis Goes To Smyrna

Minneapolis Goes to Smyrna.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The navy department is advice of the departure of the cruiser Minneapolis from Alexandria from Smyrna. The San Francisco is already there and the Marblehead is at Mersene, 340 miles distance. This doubtless gave rise to the overdrawn reports that a naval demonstration is about to occur at Smyrna as a means of forcing the Turkish government to yield to the demands of the United States of an indemnity for recent depredations on missionary property. Acting Secretary McAdoo said Wednesday that there was no significance in the movements of the ships toward Smyrna.