ITALY IN POSSESSION

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1258, 13 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY IN POSSESSION

TOBRUK FORTS STORMED. j BALKAN TROUBLE FEARED. GREAT FLEET CONVOY. By Telegraph—Press Association— OopTriEht (Rec. October 13, 0.55 a.m.) London, October 12. Tho Vienna correspondent of "The Times" declares that tho world must _bo | prepared for tho enunciation of Italian, sovereignty over Tripoli. If Turkey will not acquiesce a prolonged war with tho danger of Balkan complications is inevilablo unless tho Towers firmly compel Turkey to swallow tho pill. THE LANDING AT TOBRUK. FORTS QUICKLY STORMED. Rome, October 11. After the firing of two rounds from tie warships' 12in. guns, a. company of Italian marines landed at Tobruk (Barca, Tripoli), and advanced on the forts. The Turks opened fire on the stormers, who quickly, under cover of a wall, forced an entrance and hoisted the Italian flag. The Turks retired under a continued fire from the Italians, who were posted 00. the neighbouring heights. A HAIL OP BULLETS. (Rec. October 13, 0.55 a.m). Rome, October 12. Details from Tobruk state that the landing boats encountered a hail of bullets. The soldiers and sailors jumped into the sea and waded ashoTe. They then answered the enemy's fire and made a bayonet charge.

SIXTY TRANSPORTS.

GREAT ITALIAN CONVOY. Rome, October 11. Elaborate precautions were taken in the dispatch of sixty Italian transports. The convoy of tho vessels presents a front extending oTer five miles. Malta, October 11. Nineteen Italian transports, escorted by four battleships and eight destroyers, have passed here on their way to Tripoli with troops. ITALY IN POSSESSION. A RECEPTION IN THE VALI'S PALACE. Rome, October 11. At a reception at fcho Governor's Palace at Tripoli, tho Foreign Consults offered their congratulations to the Italians. Ono hundred Arab chiefs attended the reception. Turkish deseretrs report that the troops are without loaders, and aTe completely disorganised. The public services at Tripoli are "being resumed. Tho Italians have blown up tho Sultanieh fort. TURKS GATHERED INLAND. THE RECENT NIGHT ATTACK. (Rec. October 12, 9.25 p.m.) Tripoli, October 12. The night attack previously reported was merely a small skirmish. The Turks crept to the Italians' outposts, possibly with tho idea of cutting-off tho water supply. They left two dead. ; The first division of troops has disembarked. The Turks are gathering in the Gharian hills, where Arabs aro arriving from the Gebel region. GUN-RUNNING AT BENGHAZI (Roc. October 13, 0.55 a.m.) Rome, October 12. The Italians are finding that Benghazi has been tho centre of an extensive import trade in guns for the Senussi, Sahara,- and Wadai tribes. Measures have been adopted to stop the traffic. BULGARIA ALARMED. RESERVISTS CALLED OUT, (Rec. October 13, 0.55 a.m.) Vienna, October 12. Bulgaria is quietly mobilising the first lino of her reserves. She is profoundly dissatisfied with tho Porte's explanation regarding the Turkish reinforcements in Adrianoplo and .Macedonia. GERMAN REMONSTRANCES. (Rec. October 13, 0.55 a.m.) Berlin, October 12. Germany has seriously remonstrated with the Porte and Bulgaria as to the dangers of concentration of troops. ' ALBANIANS EXCITED. PORTE DISPATCHING TROOPS, (Rec. Oct. 12, 10.10 p.m.) Athens, October 12. The Malissori tribesmen in Albania aro excited, and are again migrating to Montenegro. The Porte is dispatching troops to Skutari. ITALIANS WARNED. (Rec. Oct. 13, 0.55 a,m.) Rome, October 12. Advices from Skutari, in Northern Albania, state that tho Italians there have been informed that they will bo regarded as Ottoman subjects, and if they fail to comply with the law will be tried by court-martial. MINES IN THE DARDANELLES. ADVICE RECEIVED IN LONDON. (Rec. Oct. 12, 9.25 p.m.) London, October 12. Advices from au apparently trustworthy source state that the Turks are laying mines in tho Dardanelles. The Foreign Office has advised Italy not to treat coal or foodstuffs as contraband whatever 'their destination. GUARDING KING VICTOR. ANARCHIST PLOT. (Rec. Oct. 13, 0.55 a.m.) Rome, October 12. Extraordinary precautions are being taken to guard the King at Naples owing to tho discovery of an anarchist plot. GERMANY AND TOBRUK. A DENIAL. (Rec. October 13, 0.55 a.m.) Rome, October 12. j It. is officially denied that Germany had planned to secure Tobruk from Turkey j as a coaling station, or has any intention j of securing it from Italy. , ITALIANS MASSACRED. REPORT FROM ARABIA. ( (f!ec. October 12. 9.25 p.m.) ! London, October 12. ' The Italian Embassy has t*«n informed ' from Alesan.diia that tbirtj Italian J. t

workmen on the Hedjaz Railway, in Arabia, wore massacred early in October. THE CENSORSHIP. Rome, October 11. There has been increased severity in tho press censorship. Several correspondents aro being prosecuted for betraying Stale secrets. BLOCK IN WHEAT SHIPMENTS. St. Petersburg, October 11. Upwards of 300,000 tons of wheat intended for Italy has accumulated in tho Black Sea.