ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10440, 4 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

CONTRADICTORY REPORTS

ATTITUDE OF THE RIVAL POWERS

TROOPS EMBARKING FOR TRIPOLI

INTERCESSION OF GERMANY

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Uopyngnt.)

TROOPS FOR TRIPOLI. INTENTIONS OF ITALY. (Received Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.) ROME, October 3. ■Forty thousand troops wiil sail for Tripoli' in throe divisions on. the Bth, 9th. and 10th October. Signer GioHtti proposed to administer Tripoli as/ an Italian Province, similar to France's administration, of Algeria.

A REPORT CONTRADICTED. NO TROOPS LANDED AT PREVEZA. (.Received Last Nigh*, 10.55 o'clock.) October 3. The landing of Italian troops at i J reveza is officially denied. There is no intention of landing troops, except at Tripoli and Cyrenaioa. ' Naval operations will be exclusively directed to protecting the Italian coast and shipping from Turkish raids.

THE TURKISH MINISTRY. OBSTRUCTION TO PEACE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 3. Kdamil Pasha's refusal to accept the tutelage of the Oomimattee of Union and Progress prevents tie ending of tlie crisis. KiamiL Pasha, deonaJids the dissolution of the Commirßiee. The (Minister of Marine has fesigned. Parliament has been convoked for October 14th. I- : - ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS. PERTURBED AT CRITICISM. (IReceived Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.) ROME, October 3. The Italian mewspapers are greatly /perturbed at the adverse criticism of the Italian action, particularly at that of Great Britain.

A TIRELESS ADMIRAL. AND ÜBIQUITOUS FLAGSHIP. (Received Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.) ROME, Ootober 3. Messages from the Adriatic squadron emphasis© the Duke of Abruzzi's tireless activity. This lias given the impression, thai he does not sleep or rest. His. orders fall like hail day and night. The flagship Yettor Pisani seems to he possessed of the gift of übiquity.

A COLLISION. BETWEEN DESTROYER AND r* TORPEDOER. (Received Last Nightj 10.00 o'clock.) ROME, October 3. The Italian destroyer Nembo, and the' torpedoer Aregia collided, and returned to Augusta in Sicily, for repairs.

THE SUNK TORPEDOERS. ONLY SMALL CRAFT. (Received. Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct, 3. It is explained that the torpedoers. sunk, at Provteza. were only small 150 ton vessels, which, carried onepounder gums for use against smugglers.

- I SULTAN AT THE SHRINE. GERMANY'S SUGGESTION. (Received Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 3. The Sultan, spends hours daily at different shrines. He holds frequent audiences with, the Gen-man Ambassador, who, it is .understood, advocates the cession of Tripoli to Italy, th* Kaiser undertaking that Italy, will -give■ adequate compensation.

TURKISH RESERVES CALLED OUT. (Received Last' Night, 10.55 o'clock.) OONSTAMTINOPSLE, Oct. 3. Seven classes, of the reserves have ibeen called out, and preparationis' are ibeing made to call out nm>e further classes.

TURKISH REVENUE CUTTERS. SEIZED AT SOUTHAMPTON. Received This Morning, 12.50 .o'clock. LONBON, October 3. The Southampton Customs, officials have taken possession of four Turkis!!: revenue cutters, Imiilt at Thornycroft's yards.

REFUGEES AT MALTA. IN A PITIABLE CONDITION. SOME GO BAYING MAD. (Received Las* Night, 9.20 o'clock.) MALTA, October 3. The .steamer Castle Grath h«s ar-

rived from Tripoli with twelve hundred refugees. They were huddled together on the deck for three days in a. continuous storm of rain, and they .suffered terribly from 'seasickness. Owing to being witliout cargo, the steamer pitched horribly, and the refugees were repeatedly thrown to the decks. Seven, went raying mad as a result of their experiences, while the minds of others were unhinged. The .majority are pennilesis. ■Many fell on their knees, imploring aid from journalists and officials boarding the Castle Gratia. They clamoured for food and water, holding up enumerated children. The refugees stated that an infuriated, mob of Arabs and Turks besieged the Italians in their Consulate, until a battalion of Turkish infantry escorted them to the Castle Grath, whence, the Admiral transferred the Italian refugees to another ship, owing to the crowded condition of the former.

ARABS TO BE ORGANISED. BY ENVER BEY. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) BERLIN, October 3. Enver Bey, Military Attache of Turkey in. Germany, who has been recalled to Constantinople, isaid, in an interview, that he expected to be isent to Tripoli, via l Egypt, to organise the Arabs. These fanatical anti-European tribes, if properly organised aJid led by capable mmmander,s, would offer an almost indefinite, resistance. Enver Bey expects moral support from tlie Senussi tribesmen, and active aid from the desert Tauregs, who are particularly suited to guerilla warfare. Tripoli town is> untenable, but the troops could.! garrison several forts in the hinterland.

CONFLICTING REPORTS. NO BOMBARDiMEiNT OF TRIPOLI (Received October 3, 10.20 a.m.)

LONDON, October 2. The war news is conflicting. The Italian Embassy here denies that tliere have been, bombardments of Adriatic .ports, or that Italian troops have been landed anywhere except at Tripoli. Tripolitan palssengers who have reached Sicily isay there was no bombardment of Tripoli up to 8 o'clock on Saturday night.

FORTS BOMBARDED. TOWN OF TRIPOLI EVACUATED. Ola-iOAL STATEMENT. (Received October 3, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. line Dapy News special correspondeait fit Tripoli reports that the forts w©r<> (bombarded, and the palace destroyed. The town was then evacuated, and the garrison is now preparing defences in the hills.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 2. It is officially stated that sixteen hundred. Italians have landed at Prevoza and that they have destroyed the forts.

..ALIAN PROPOSALS. HANDED IN BY GERMAN AMBASSADOR. ' PEACE PRELIMINARIES. (Received October 3, 9.20 a.m.) BERLIN, October 2. The Berliner Tageblatt states that Ccunt Marsolia.ll von Bieberstein, German Ambassador at Constantinople, has handed ,to the Grand Vizier the Italian proposals, and that discussion: of peace preliminaries is proceeding.

NOTIFICATION TO THE POWERS. CAUSE OF ITALY'S ACTION AT PREVEZA^ TO PREVENT INTENDED RAIDS. (Received October 3, 9.5 a.m.) ROME, October 2. Italy has. notified'the Powers that her a<ctdon at Preveza was due to intended raids by the Turks on the Italian coasts and shipping.

AN ASSURANCE.. (Received October 3, 9 a.m.) ATHENS, October 2. The Turkish Grand Vizier has assured Greece that the Turkish military nnovem«ats on the ThessaliaJi j f.rontieir are due to the state of war with Italy.

A RUSSIAN PROTEST. (Received October 3, 9.20 a.m.) BERLIN, October 2. The Vossiche Zeitung's St. Peters-

•burg correspondent states that Russia has protested against the Turkish concentration of troops on the Thess-i alian frontier.

TORPEDOER LOST. CAPTAIN KILLED AND EIGHT DROWNED. (Received October.3, 9.10 a.m.) ROME, October 2. One of the torpedoers at Preveza was lost. Hie captain was killed by o shell. Eight men we drowned.

A CAPTURE. TWO TURKISH DESTROYERS -SUNK. ANOTHER CAPTURED. (Received October 3, 9.7. a.m.)

ROME, October 2. The Turkish transport Sabah, with troops for Tripoli, was captured and hrought to Brindisi. Advices from Corfu state that two Turkish destroyers ha've been sunk and another captured. The police at Piraeus have arrested the crew of a. Turkish sailer whiph was suspected of being about to ship arms for Tripoli.