Italian-Turko War

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 5 October 1911, Page 5

Italian-Turko War

A TRANSPORT SUNK. BOMBARDMENT OF TRIPOLI. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Rome, October 3. The Trihuna says that the transport Derna, which was said to have been •permitted by the Italian fleet to pass, was shelled and sunk. In order to enable the inhabitants to ♦scape, three days' notice was given of -the bombardment of Tripoli, which will fcegin today. Two dirigibles have been sent to Tripoli. WHAT ITALY IS AGREEABLE TO PAY. Paris, October 3. It is reported that Italy is willing to pay Turkey <W,000,000 trance ( £2,409,006) for the cession of Tripoli, similar to Austria's payment for BosniaHerteegoVina in 1008. MOHMIMEDAXS APPEAL TO BRITAIN*. Calcutta. October 3. A meetfng of Mohammedans urged Britain, as fV greatest Mohammedan Power, to check Italy's aggression, and appealed te Turkey to defend the honor of Islam. A strong committee was formed, named the Red Crescent Society, to take steps with a view to restraining hostilities.

AKABS GETTIXG READY. SAFEGUARDING SHIPPINC. London, October 3. - The Daily Chronicle's Malta correspondent reports that sixty thousand Arabs, armed with Mausers, are stationed fifty miles inland from Tripoli, where there is a natural stronghold. Lloyds have asked Sir Edward Grey to urge upon the Italian and Turkish Government* of allowing lights to continue on the highway of commerce, particularly in the Aegean and Red Seas and the Dardanelles, where their absence will interfere with the grain trade.

Italian ships engaged in the Black Sea trade are not insurable.

TRIPOLI BOMBARDED. THE INHABITANTS FLEEING. I ' * ' Loudon, October 3. Private advices have been received that the bombardment of Tripoli has commenced, and the inhabitants are fleeing, A TURKISH NOTE TO THE POWERS. London. October 3, Turkey's second Note to the Powers, which has been published, states that the Porte is convinced it is still possible to end the war. Hence, although she is entitled to employ against Italy not only measures automatically arising from the state of war. but also any which the situation will permit, such measures are being postponed. The Government is thus striving to stem the enthusiasm of the Ottoman people, and hopes the Powers will respond. BOMBARDMENT O'S TRIPOLI. SUCCESSFUL LANDING OF ITALIANS. PREVEZA THREATENED. SORRY PLIGHT OF TURKISH PRISONERS.

Received 4, 10.30 p.m. Corfu. October 4. The Duke of Abruzzi has issued an ultimatum to the Vali of I'reveza stating that unless lie delivered the warships refuging in the harbor the town would be bombarded. Rome, October 4. Yicc-Adniiral Farauelli reports that in reply to a summons to surrender the Turkish commander asked for a respite. Admiral Farauelli conceded this until noon yesterday. Other telegrams state that the Turkish commander asked time to communieate with Constantinople. Italy refused. The commander thereupon refused to .surrender. The newspaper Tribune, in a special edition, report- that the cruisers bombarded Tripoli forts, the Yalis Castle. and the highest points of the city. Afterwards a landing was effected and the Italian flag hoisted on shore. A message from Taranto says there was much cx< itement over the disembarkment of Turki-h prisoners from the transport Snhah. including a genera! and several officers of high rank. The prisoners were in n sorry condition, owing to the bad weather. The officers w< re lodged in a castle and the soldiers in barracks. TURKS THREATEN* ITALIAN COLONY ITALIANS SINK SMALL BOATS. Received 4. 10.30 p.m. Vienna. October 4. The newspaper Diezeit states that the Porte has ordered the expeditionary corps operating in Yemen to occupy the Italian colony of Eritrea. The corps will be supported by the Turkish flotilla in the Red Sea, where Italian merchant ships were already threatened and forced to return to Massowah.

Constantinople. October 4. The Italian warships -ank two motor boats at Hadaia and pursued the destroyer Peikiehefket. which escaped. Another Italian cruiser was sighted off Dedeagacb.

A DISUNITED CABINET. XAYY WOXT OBEY ORDERS. REMARKABLE REVULSIOX OF KEELIXG. IN FAVOR OF BRITAIN". Received 4, 11.10 p.m. London. October 4. Several batches of Italian reservists have quitted London to rejoin their colors. Constantinople, October 4. The Cabinet held its third all-night sitting. Hilmi and Nazim Pashas declined office. There are now eleven warships in the Dardanelles. The Minister for Marine states that he resigned because the licet disobeyed his orders. The Porte closed Italian shops and appropriated the Italian hospital. The Balkan States have declared their strict neutrality. There has been a remarkable revulsion of feeling in military circles in favor of Britain. Sir Edward Grey's reply to the Porte's appeal regrets that Britain is unable to intervene .at present, as the time is inopportune, but that it will take the first favorable opportunity to do so. The reply has produced a good effect here.

THE DUKE OF ABRUZZI. Bv the variety aml init<rnitiiclf> of his exploration*, the Duke of Abruzzi. in charge of the Italian naval forces, has earned for himself the name of the greatest explorer of this age. A captain in the Italian navy, he was twenty-nine years old when lie distinguished himself by scaling, for the first time, the lofty peak of St. Elias. in the Rocky Mountains. The North Pole was his next lure. Amid the islands of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago his ship forced a way, past Nansen's winter quarters, to Teplitz Bay. where, in the high altitude of SI degrees X., winter quarters were established, and an observatory erected. "This last piece of work affords," said Nature, "a proof of the attention bestowed on the Duke of Abruzzi on the scientific problems awaiting investigation in the regions he has visited. Only Peary has got farther north than the Duke.'"' A cruise among the South Sea Islands, in the course of which he visited New Zealand, followed, and the Duke then turned his attention to Equatorial Africa. The mist-wrapped mountain Rewenyori. whose peaks, oven in the heat of the tropics, are clad in eternal snow, tempted his adventurous spirit. Through dense mist, over slippery glaciers, his party fought their way until they stood upon the highest point in Africa. "To the two final summits'." Ikfi Puke wrote. "I gave the names of Margherita and Alt-Sandra. In order that, under the auspices of the two royal ladies, the memory of two nations may be handed down to posterity: of Italy, the name of which resounded for the first time on these snows in our shouts of victory; and of England, who, in its marvellous colonial expansion, carries civilisation even to the slopes of these remote mountains." The ascent was made at the beginning of 10!>7. the height of Rewenyori being Ifi.SlOft.