ITALIAN HORRORS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1280, 8 November 1911, Page 7

ITALIAN HORRORS.

WORM THAN A I'OfiROM. RIJPORTS CONPIRJVW2I) BY A TURIN J'AI'ER, TURKS CAPTURE MiINA. It.r 7'oleirrinili—l'itrs A'-i'iciall'iH- nonrrlthl London. November 11. Jlr. jM'Uiillngh. miri'sp lent of tho "Westminster <ln/,etl"" at Tripoli, lia't rolui'iii'd his pii|H'rs lo <I"lktiil I'miovii, Jfalinn t :<piiimiiiid(i'-iii-Uliief in Tripoli, ir-i a prnlcsl; against Hie dlroritie'i Jicipel rated by tho Italian troiMis on llm Am b : . J\lr. M'Ciillngli photographed several Beetles of horror, which lira wiiil b> have been worso than any Russian pogrom or Armenian massacre. Pour hundred womon and children were shot; also four thousand men, of whom not a hundred wore guilty of any crimo. Mr. Jl'Ctlllagh saw fifty men and children executed in one batch. Cripples and blind beggars wcro deliberately shot, and sick people whoyo houses wero burned clown, were left on tho ground, and refused oven'a'drop of water. Tho soldiers, says Jlr. M'Cullagh, aro paralysed with fear; tho enemy's persistency day and night is affecting thoir imaginations and nerves. NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. GENERAL FRUGONI TAKES CUA-RGE. Rome, November G. Lieut.-General Frugoni, Commander of tho North Army Corps, which has its headquarters at l'ome, supersedes General Caneva, who will be appointed Governor of Tripoli. CHOLERA IN TRIPOLI. BODIES COLLECTED IN THE STREETS. Malta, Novembsr 6. Tho bodies of fifty persons, who had died from cholera, were collected in the streets of Tripoli on Sunday. There, are forty cholera cases daily among tho Italian troops. A pestilential stench is rising from the oasis. MESSAGE TO THE POWERS, TURKEY'S "USELESS" RESISTANCE. Rome, November G. An Italian mossago to tho Powers states that tho continuous success of tho Italian arms renders resistance on tho part of Turkey useless. If peace woro signed it would enable Italy's policy to be inspired by her interest for the liiainteuanco of tlio territorial statu quo iu the Balkans, in connection with which tho consolidation of Turkey is an essential factor. TURKISH TRANSPORT SUNK, INCIDENT IN RED SEA. Romo, November G. An Italian cruiser sank a Turkish transport near Akabah, in tho Red Sea. Tho majority of tho transport's crew was rescued. A TURKISH VICTORY. ENVER BEY AT WORIC. (Rec. November 7, (MO p.m.) j Constantinople, November 7. ' Euvcr Bey, who has been making his way overland to Tripoli to tako up tho Turkish command, and tho Scnussi chiefs have telegraphed that tho Turks hava seized tho port of Derna, iu Cyrenaica. Tho Italians lost fivo hundred killed, besides numerous prisoners and eighteen guns. Tlio Turks lost eighty killed and eighty wounded. ITALIAN TROOPS BOMBARDED. EXECUTIONS OP WOMEN. (Rec. November 7, 9.-10 p.m.) Rome, November 7. The Turkish artillery bombarded tho Italians throughout Jlonday, concluding the attack on tho Italian left at nino at night. Aeroplanes dropped bombs in tho Turkish camp. Heavy downpours indicato that tho rainy season is commencing. 1 The correspondent of the Turin "Stampa" statos that the soldiers aro inebriated with vcngeancc, and narrates that after other executions, a 'husband and wife, two splendid types of Bedouins, wcro led to the wall. They took ouo another's hands and repeated a prayer while tho soldiers levelled their rifles, and the husband was shot. Tho woman did not flinch when tlio order was given to firo or when tho rifles wero levelled. Sho was killed later. An old woman was shot on a charge of concealing cartridges under her rags. Sho was forced to strip, though sho feigned modesty to prevent search,