ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10441, 5 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

BOMBARDMENT OF TRIPOU BALKAN STATES REMAIN NEUTRAL MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS BRITAIN S REPLY TO THE APPEAL

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SUMMONS TO SURRENDER. REFUSED EY~TURKISH COMMANDER. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) ROME, October 4. Vice-Admiral Faranolli reports that, in reply to a summons to surrender, the Turkish commander asked for a re-spite. Vice-Admiral ?ar>anelli conceded ihi*s until noon yesterday. Other telegrams state that the Turkish commander asked for timi to communicate with Constantinople. This was refused, and the eom•mander thereaipon refused to surrender. AN ULTIMATUM. WARSHIPS TO~BE DELIVERED UP. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.)

CORFU, October 4. The Duke of Abruzzi, in an ultimatum, to the Vali of Preveza, states that unless he delivered, the warships refuging in the harbour, the town would be bombarded. TRIPOLI BOMBARDED. THE ITALIAN FLAG HOISTED. (Reoe.'W Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) ROME, October 2. The news-paper "Tribune," in a special edition, reports that the Ita - ia- cruisers bombarded the lnpoli forts, the Vali's Castle, and the highest points of the city. Afterwards a landing was effected, and the Italian flag was hoisted

TURKISH PRISONERS.

LN A SORRY PLIGHT. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) ROME, October 4. A shore message from Jt:r.~to states that vhere was much excitement at the disemibarkment of Turkish prisoners from the transport Sabah The prisoners included a General, and several officers of high rank. The prisoners" were in a sorry condition, owing to bad weather. The officers were lodged in the castle, and the soldiers in barracks.

TURKEY ACCRESSIVE.

TO OCCUPY AN ITALIA-TT COLONY. - (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) VIENNA, October 4. ; The "Drezeit" states that the Porte has ordered an expeditionarycorps operating in Yemen to occupy the Italian colony of Eritrea, on • the Red Sea. The corps will be supported by the' Turkish flotilla in the Red Sea, where Italian merchant ships, already threatened, were forced to return to Maasowah.

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ITALIAN WARSHIPS. SINK TWO MOTOR BOATS. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 4. The Italian warships sank two motor, boats at Hadaid'a,. and pursued the destrOyer Peikkh&fket, which escaped. Another Italian cmiser has been sighted off Dede Agatch, on the. Aegran Sea.

IIALIANS QUITTING LONDON. ; TO REJOIN THE COLOURS. (Received Last Night, 11.10 o'clock.)

LONDON, October 4

•Several batches of Italian reservists have quitted London, to rejoin the colours. NEWS FROM TURKISH CAPITAL. ALL NIGHT SITTING OF CABINET. ITALIAN SHOPS CLOSED. (Received Last Night, 11.10 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 4. The Cabinet held a third all-night sitting. Hilmi Naziman Pasha has decluir e.d" office. ( ■ . .

'There are now eleven warships in ' the Dardanelles. The Minister of Marine states that * l.» has resigned' because the fleet dis- ', obeyed his orders. The Porte has closed Italian shops

} and appropriated the Italian hosj pital.

REVULSION Or FEELING. IN FAVOUR OF GREAT BRITAIN. (Received Last Night, 11.10 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 4." There has been a remarkable revulsion, of feeling in military circles in Turkey in favour of Great Britain . 'Sir Edward Grey's reply to the Porte'® appeal, in which, he regrets that intervention is at present inopportune, biu- states that he will take advantage of the first favourable opportunity, has produced a good effect on the Porte. .

THE BALKAN STATES.

DEuLARE STUICT NEUTRALITY. (.Received Last Night, 11.10 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 4. The Balkan States have declared a 'strict neutrality. BOMBARDMENT OF TRIPOLI. THREE DAYS'~NOTICE GIVEN. (Received October 4, 9 a.m.) ROME, October 3. The newspaper Tribuna states that the Turkish transport Derna was shelled and sunk.

In order to enable the inhabitants to escape, three days' notice was given of the bombardment in. Tripoli, which, will begin to-day. i Two dirigibles have been sent to Tripoli.

(Received October 4, 9.12 a.m.)

LONDON, October 3. Private advices state that- the bombardment of Tripoli has commenced, arid that the inhabitants are fleeing from the town.

( SIXTY THOUSAND ARABS. ARMED WITH MAUSERS. (Received October 4, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 3. The Daily Chronicle'si Malta correspondent reports that sixty thousand Arabs, armed with Mausers, are stationed fifty miles inland of Tripoli, where-there is a natural rtronghold.

ITALY WILLINC TO PAY.

SIXTY MILLION FRANCS MEN-

(Received October 4, 9.20 a.m.) ,

PARIS; October 3. ' It is reported that Italy is willing to pay Turkey sixty million francs' for the cession of Tripoli, similar to Austria's payment for Bosnia-Herze-govina in 1908. >

(Bosnia-Herzegovina was suddenly' and formally annexed by AustriaHungary on 7th October, 1908.) MOHAMMEDANS IN INDIA. AN APPEAL-TO BRITAIN. (Received October -I, 9.16 a.in.) CALCUTTA, October 3. At a meeting of Mohammedans, it wa * decided to urge Britain, as the greatest Mohammedan Power, to cheek Italy's aggression. The meeting also resolved to appeal to Turkey to defend the honouiof Islam.

A strong committee to be called, the Red OrescentNSociety, has been (formed to take steps with the view; to restraining, hostilities.

TURKEY'S SECOND NOTE. ~ j

STILL POSSIBLE TO END THE ! WAR.

(Received October 4, 9.15 a.m.) !

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct, 3. Turkey's second Note to the Powers has been published. It states that Turkey is convinced that it is still possible to end the Avar, and that hence, although she is entitled to employ against Italy, besides measures automatically arising from a state of war, any other measures of ■which the situation will permit, the carrying out of such measures has been postponed, the Turkish Government thus striving to stem the enthusiasm of the Ottoman people • • The Note adds that Turkey: hopejs

Ithe Powers will respond to her appeals.

LIGHTS ON THE HICHWAYS OF COMMERCE.

ITALY'S AND TURKEY'S ACTION. (Received October 4, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 3. Lloyds have asked Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) to urge upon, the Italian and Turkish Governments the great importance of allowing liglits to continue to burn on the highways of commerce, particularly 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.