ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10449, 14 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

MEETING OF DEPUTIES

NO-CONFIDENCE IN CABINET. Received This Morning, 12.18 o'clock CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 13. Aia meeting of Turkish) Deputies, the Oppositionists declined to support a vote of confidence in the Sfaid Paelia Cabinet, while the Unionists were prepared to support it if it resisted Italy to the bitter end.

A HOLY WAR.

Received Tihis> Morning, 12.18 o'clock CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 13. Imam Ylabya ha* proclaimed a Holy War in Yemen. The tribes are flocking to the coast.

CONTRABAND OF WAR.

Received This Morhing, 12.18 o'clock CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 13. The Government has declared cereals and preserved foodstuffis to be contraband. Flour is not mentioned. Although the Porte has not adhered to the Declaration of London, the Cabinet has decided to observe it in regard to neutrals and contraband.

CACCINC THE PRESS.

(Received Last Night, 12.18 o'clock.) CONOTANTINiOPLE, Oct. 13. /The refusal of journalists to obey the summons of a court-martial to answer charges of publishing articles against the Cabinet, has revealed Hie fact toat the Grand Vizier authorised the criticisms. The suspension of several papers has roused a feeling against Shevket Pasha for gagging .the^press.

BOYCOTT OF ITALIAN GOODS.

Received Thisi Morning, 12.19 o'clock , CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 13. The boycott of Italian goods has begun at various ports. A Bulgarian steamer >\-'.lta3£an;rl£fden, was. not allowed to discharge her'cargo. : .

BRITISH REFUGEES.

1 -:^ : -;^^i^^ ; v-t^rw^vt;V': : ". Received This Morning, 12.18 o'clock MALTA, October 13. Two hundred Bi'itish refugees from Tripoli are okiming agaitißt the Government for losses sustained through their flight, which they declare the British Consul ordered.

ITALY INSISTENT.

Received This Morning, 12.13 o'clock LONDON, October 13. The Daily MaiL decferes that Italy insists on the relinquishment of Tnirkish Sovereignty in Tripoli. Italy is wiping to give money in compensation.

ATTEMPT AT MEDIATION.

(Received. October 13, 9.6 a.m.) ! PARIS, October 12. The five great Powers—JJritain, Fa-ance, Germiany, Austria, and Russia—hesides endeavouring to me-, diate between Italy and Turkey, are intervening to remove the tension between Turkey and Bulgaria.

ASSURANCES.

(Received October 13, 9.17 a.m.) SOFIA, October 12. All the Powers have assured Bulgaria that they will not permit Turkish aggression.

AN INTERVIEW.

(Received October 13, 8.5 a..m.) LONDON, October 12. Tlie Daily Mail's Constantinople correspondent bad an interview with Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Turkish Minister for War. . Slhei ket. Pasha said Turkey - had plans to meet a European trouble, but none to deal with the onslaught on Tripoli. Intervention by the Powers-was the most suitable way of settling the dispute.

ITALIAN PROCLAMATION.

(Received October 13, 9 a.m.) ROME, October 12. Vice-Admiral Fairavelli, tli>e Italian Cbmimander-in-Orief, lias issued a proclamation at Tripoli. He promises compensation for damage done during the bomilxirdimeiut. Three thou'sand Arabs hare submitted to the Italians.

I SAD PLIGHT OF TURKISH TROOPS.

I (Received October 13, 9.10 a.m.) TKJPOII, bctober*l2.' ;. Twenty-two .tMii'Siportis have arrived lie-re. The Turkish troops have no shelter; they are exjposed to the sun ami blinding rand. iFood is short, fever 1 is. prevalent, «nd tliere have been many desertions. AT MASSOWAH. (Received October 13, 9.7 a .to.) ROME, October 12. 'llhe 'furies captured two Italian sailors at Mjassm-wah.