Fighting In Tripoli

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 116, 6 November 1911, Page 5

Fighting In Tripoli

GHASTLY CARNAGE. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED. SOLDIERS DRUNK WITH BLOOD. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 5, 5.0 p.m. Turin (via the frontier)-, Nov. 4. StampM, a Tripoli correspondent, reports witnessing several executions. A man and his wife were executed for the possession of arms, and ealmiy met their death, holding each others hands. Other instances are cited, and he adds that the soldiers are drunk with the lust of vengeance, and officers ar« obliged to exercise all tlieir authority to restrict military excesses. Tripoli (via Tunis), November 4. lieutenant Harold C. Montague, serving with the Turks, saw the mutilated bodies of a hundred women and children who had been massacred by the Italians In revenge for heavy losses in battie. THE ITALIAN DISASTER. FURTHER ACCOUNTS. THE ITALIANS DEMORALISED. Madrid, November 3. The Diario Universal declares that new§ from a trusted - special correspondent in Tripoli states that the latest battle was an absolute Italian disaster. The Turks and Arabs, after several boors fighting, carried the Italian positions with an irresistible rush, and captured several forts and a thousand prisoners. Constantinople, November 3. j An official report from the Turkish commander in Tripoli report# that on the 30th he occupied all the forts surrounding Tripoli, the Italians withdrawing into the town within the zone of the fortifications. They are demoralised, and will not venture outside the town. THE CHARGES OF CRUELTY. ITALIAN REPUDIATION. Rome, November 3. As Turkey reiterates charges of systematic slaughter, M. Giolitti, the Premier, indignantly denies that women and children were ill-treated. He declares that the army's courage and humanitarian sentiments were above all praise, and generally admired. Its behaviour would render ths war an example of generous and chivalrous civilisation. Italian officers state that the Arabs killed many wounded, stripped their bodies naked, and cut the fingers off to get ringß. THE LATE TURKISH CABINET. NEGLECT OF THEIR DUTY IN * TRIPOLI GERMAN AMBASSADOR BLAMED. Constantinople. November 3. Hakki Pa»ha has declared that if he is prosecuted for neglecting Tripoli he will be able to prove that the Cabinet's 1 attitude was regulated by the assurances of Baron von Bieberstein. the German Ambassador, who induced the withdrawal of troops, and asserted it was unnecessary to send provisions and ammunition, because Italy would never send a single regiment or ship. Political circles are staggered by Hakki Pasha's admission. INDIAN MOSLEMS' PROTEST. Calcutta, November 3. The , All India Moslems League at Lucknow has protested against Italy's revival of mediaeval barbarism, and appeals to humane Governments to end the conflict. ITALIAN NAVAL BASE. Rome. November 3. A naval hasp has been established at Tobnik, and will be used for any future action in the Turkish Archipelago. REFERENCE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. London, November 3. In the House of Commons "Mabon." Mr. T. Richards (Labor), asked what action the Government proposed to tike to express the horror and detestation of the House at the Tripoli massacre. Mr. Asquith replied that he most deprecated such questions. (Cheers.)