WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1052, 5 October 1911, Page 3

WAR.

RESERVES CAL,FED OUT,

THE SULTAN AT THE SHRINES.

Constantinople, Oct. 3

Seven classes of reserves have been called out, and preparations are being made to call out nine further classes.

It is explained that the torpedoes sunk at Preveza were only 150-tou vessels, and carried onepounder guns for use against smugglers. The Sultan spends hours daily at different shrines and holds frequent audiences with the German Ambassador, who, it is understood, advocates the cession of Tripoli, the Kaiser undertaking that Italy will give adequate compensation.

ITALY’S INTENTIONS,

Rome, Oct. 3

Forty thousand troops are to sail in three divisions on the Bth, 9th and xoth October. Senor Giolitti proposes to administer Tripoli as an Italian province, similar to France’s administration of Algeria.

experiences of re-

fugees

Malta, Oct. 3.

The steamer Castle of Grath has arrived from Tripoli with 1,200 refugees. They had been huddled on the deck for three days in a continuous storm of rain, and had been suffering terrible sickness.

Owing to being without cargo, the steamer pitched horribly, and the refugees were repeatedly thrown on the decks. Seven are raving mad as the result of their experiences, and the minds of others are unhinged. The majority are penniless. Many fell on their knees imploring the aid of the journalists and officials who boarded the Castle of Grath, and clamoured for food and water, holding up emaciated children.

SIXTY THOUSAND ARABS WITH MAUSERS.

The Malta correspondent of the Daily Chronicle reports that 60,000 Arabs, armed with Mauser rifles, are stationed 50 miles inland from Tripoli, where they have a natural stronghold. Rome, Oct. 3.

The Tribuna says the transport Derna, which was said to have been permitted by the Italian fleet to pass, was shelled and sunk. The three days’ notice of the bombardment of Tripoli, given in order to enable the inhabitants to escape will begin to-day. Two dirigibles have been sent to Tripoli. HONOUR OF ISEAM. Calcutta, Oct. 3. A meeting of Mohammedans urged Britain, as the greatest Mohammedan power, to check Italy’s progression and to appeal to Turkey to defend the honour of Islam.

Paris, Oct. 3

It is reported that Italy is willing to pay Turkey 60,000,000 francs tor the cession of Tripoli, similar to Austria’s payment lor Bosnia-Hertzegovina in 1908.