The Tripolitan Question

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1911, Page 3

The Tripolitan Question

ITALY'S CONTEMPLATED OCCUPATION. ARABS AND BRITISH PROTECTION. ITALIANS FEAR A MASSACRE. t BY KLICTRIO TILIGBAPH--COPTBI6HT.J [I'lß PBKBB AUOOIATION.] (Reoeivod This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. Private advices from Tripoli state that on tlie receipt of news of Italy's contemplated occupation of Tripoli all business places wore closcd 1 . Arabs gathered' in the mosques and decided to resist the landing to the last, and if compelled to yield, then to seek British protection. Advices received from Malta, stale that Italian warships with an expeditionary force are lying twenty miles off Tripoli. Italian residents fear a musacre if a landing is at tempted. PAR.TS, 'September 27. Rifaat Paslva expresses surpriso at the situation and declares that there is no Tripolitan question. T!he landing in Tropoli was in no way different from the lauding in Smyrna or Salonika. Tripoli was not a colony but a vital part of the Empire and Turkey would "have to defend its very existenc eas sovereign State. Dr. Tittoni, Italian Ambassador here, interviewed, said that without questioning the good faith of Tripolitan officials, lie was compelled ; 'to say their attitude never agreed with the good words of the Government in Constant! npolo.