THE TRIPOLI WAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1266, 23 October 1911, Page 5

THE TRIPOLI WAR.

« TROOPS LAND AT BENGHAZI. ' STRENUOUS OPPOSITION. Bj Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Rome, October 20. Italian troops landed at Benghazi. They met with strenuous opposition but captured tho barracks by assault, after the. fleet bad twice bombarded tbo town. Tho opposition they encoiiutorcd was due to tho natives resenting tho Italian occupation and tho stopping of tho slave traffic, which is largely centred in Benghazi. The Italians bombarded Horns, 5G miles inland from tho port of Tripoli, on tho coast of Palestine, and destroyed tho bari racks before tho Turks put up tho white flag. The above message is printed as rc--1 ooived. There has been no previous men- : tion of operations on tho coast of Syria, and it is not easy to sco how a town 50 miles inland could bo bombarded from tbo Eoa, TURCO-BULGARIAN FIGHT. ENGAGEMENT ON THE FRONTIER. (Rec. October 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 2L The "Daily Chronicle's" Salonild correspondent reports that a fight between Turks and Bulgarians has taken placo on 5 tho frontier. 1 Tbo losses on both sides wore heavy. I EGYPTIAN COAST BLOCKADED. BRITISH PROTEST. London, October 20. The "Daily Graphic" states that Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, protested against Italy's proposal to blockado two hundred miles of the Egyptian seaboard, and that tho ancient controversy regarding Egypt's sea ' boundary has been revived. 1 AREA REDUCED. J (Rcc. October 22, 5.5 p.m.) f Rome, October 21. ;. Italy is rectifying her blockade scheme, t and has fi-xed the eastern limit of the 0 blockade at tho Gulf of Solum. 1 TRIPOLI SLAVE TRAFFIC, 3 j A MISSIONARY'S STATEMENT. i Rome, October 20. r Father Appolino, head of the Benghazi - mission in Tripoli, states that young negroes nro forced into slavery by the 1 Arabs, who conduct tho trado in Wadai, c Central Sudan, with tho connivance of c tho authorities. Tho Sultan .of Wadai is t the greatest dealer. He makes armed - expeditions. Children in the slave caravans arc, says Father Appolino, packed by twos and thices in bags, while tho adults are chained together and subjected to shocking cruelties. TURKISH PORTS MINED. 1 Constantinople, October 20. The Porto has officially notified the ' Powers that contact mines havo been set • at Salouiki and Smyrna.