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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10444, 9 October 1911, Page 5

OCCUPATION OF TRIPOLI. BURYING THE BEAD. (Received October 7, 8.50 a.m.)

ROME, October 6. It is officially •stated that the Ital--ians Irave occupied, the town.:of- lEii*; ' V/ !.:.•"•■'■ V '.':'•■. ;' ; ' After Italian sailors had been lando i at the Sultanieli fort, a numßer of. Arabs proceeded to the Italian, flagship and tendered their submission to the German Consul-General. They asked the Admiral; to assume control of public order, the Turks having abandoned the town. Earther detachments of bluejackets, guns, and mitrailleuses have been landed, and the occupation has been completed without incident.

The.Sultanieh fort lias been garrisoned by the Italians. Admiral Favarelli, Commander-in-Chief of the Italian naval foroe, spared the Governor's palace. The bombarment did not injure foreigners' residence of any of the inhabitants. The Italians buried the Turkish dead with military honours, and conveyed twenty badly wounded men to the fleet hospital. The Turks renrcvod those less seriously injured than the ones taken to hospital. . It is declared by the Turks that resistance was impossible, owing to thi inferiority of their numbers and equipment.

ITALIAN SAILORS ASHORE. y- EXPIRINGvTWOIJ. '

(Received October-7, 8.16 a.m.)

ROME, October 6. The newspaper Giornale d'ltala states that sailors landed from the warships Guiseppe Garibaldi (7294 toi-s), Varel& ; (7294 tons), and Francesco Feruccio (7294 tons), and explored the town of Tripoli. They did not meet with any „. resistance. The •party visited the/Italian Consulate and a. church, in which the Franciscan monks and nuns were found safe.

The city has been abandoned by thfl Turks.

The Government has peremptorily forbidden the warships to carry out military operations on the Adriatic and lonian coasts... .

NATIVE TROOPS.

OFFER TO ASSIST ITALY.

(Received October

ROME, October 6,

live thousand .Native soldiers at Eritrea have volunteered for service with the Italians in Tripoli. (Eritrea is the official name of the Italian colony an 4 sphere of influence or. the Red Sea, the boundaries' of which on the side of Egypt were determined by a >prbtocol on 15th April, 1891, and on the side of Abyssinia by the treaties of 2nd May, 1889, and 6th February, 1891.)

TURKISH TREACHERY. ITALIAN DESTROYER DAMAGED . (Received October 7, 9.20 a.m.) ROME, October 6. It is officially announced that the Turks treacherously opened fi'rei;. at Sa/4 Giovanni di Med/ua, a small seaport, in Albania, upon an Italian'vessel flying the white flagj. : The-destroyer Artigliere, which is patrolling to prevent the (smuggling of arms in#o Albania, intervened. She wa'. '-slightly damaged, and the commander wounded.

CRUISERS WITHDRAWN. (iKeceived Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) (ROME, October 7. Tlie Italian cruisers have T>een recalled from Albania, in consequence of the Artigliere incident.