ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10447, 12 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

THE TURKISH FORGES

CAMEL MEN DECAMP. (Received Last Night, 11 o r ciock.) LONDON, October. 11. The Times' Tripoli correspondent states that Muna Pasha, the Turkish Commander, has marched with a force for a day in the desert. He sent his impedimenta, without escort, further into the interior. The camel men, realising that the Turkish regime was ended, and they were unlikely to bo paid, decamped with their eamiels and loads. The fact that the Turks left [their wives and artillery at Tripoli, disposes of the idea that serious resistance is contemplated.

THE TURKS ACCRESSIVE.

(Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) LONDON, October 12. Advices from Tripoli state that three hundred Turkish horsemen . made a night attack on the Italian xmtposts. Tney were repulsed, abandoning their arms and ammunition. I A warship maintained a heavy jshell fire. Z- x a second attack, a small party of, sixty Turks crept to within three tiundr'ed yards of the Italian lines, but retreated in the face of a heavy rifle fire. Trifling casualties resulted. Other reports magnify the . incident into,, a. desperate battle.

THE PORTE'S APPEAL.

REPLY 6$ THE POWERS

(Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 11

The replies of the Powers to the Porte's circular are practically identical. They promise to examine in concert how to approach Italy. .

A BELLICOSE TONE.

IN TURKISH OFFICIAL CIRCLES -. BOYCOTTING''te TTALiiiNS: (Received

GONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 11. ; A more exist® in official circles, and tneTe i» a decided j feeling in favour of the expulsion of Ta rkey. who has accepted Oabinev rank,' has decided to close Italian industrial, financial, and scholastic establishments, and to seize steamers. . - Derimagha, the leader of the antiHellenic boycott, has instructed the ports of Constantinople and Saltanjca not to handle Italian goods, tivc of the carrying vessel's ality.

A LAND ENGAGEMENT.

IN A SUBURB OF TRIPOLI. (Received October 11, 8.40 a.m.) BERLIN, October 10. A local newspaper reports the first land engagement of the war, which took place in one of tho suburbs of Tripoli. A,s a result, the Italians fin- 1 that they m/iist remain within range of their 'battleships.' guns.

GRAIN VESSELS.

-MAY PASS THROUGH THE DARDANELLES. (jLveoeived October 11, 9.10 a.m.) CWSTAIXTIiNGPLE, Oct. 10. The Porte has authorised grain vessels* to pass through the Dardanelles, provided they are not bound to Italian ports. By this decision over two. hundred vessels now in tne ißlack Sea will be released.

CONTRABAND OF WAR.

/(Received October 11, 9.5 a.m.) MALTA, October 10. ' Italy does not consider that coal conies under tlie heading of contraband of war.

ITALIAN REINFORCEMENTS.

(Received October 11, 9 a.m.) ROi.~-, October 10. The first contingent of Italian troops left Naples fbr Tripoli on the oth inst., and landed' at Tobruk (Baroa, Tripoli) to-day. Others are leaving Taranto ('South Italy) and Augusta (east coast of Sicily), and junotioning in the east.

"IRREDUCIBLE MINIMUM."

(Received .October 11, 9.20 a.m.) • RCM-E, October 10. The Powers have been, informed that nothing .snort of the annexation of Tripoli will satisfy Italy. The newspapers note that Germany, thtrougb the Press-, is suggesting .she should receive Tobruk as. a coaling station ais the price of he" acquiescing in the Tripoli expedition.