ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10452, 18 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

THE GRECIANJMNTIER WASSINC OF TURKISH TROOPS. .(Received Last Night, 10.25 o'clock) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 17. Each of the three army corps at SJalonioa, Monastir, and TJskuk have been increased by 2-5,000 men, making the tota. available forces in Western Macedonia 150,000. Many of these are assemlbling along tlie iGireek frontier at, Yanina, Elassona, Katerina, Platamong, and Karabewena.. I*, is announced that Hassan Tallin: Pasha «n. be Mahmud Shevket Pasha's successor in Salonica.

Evir Pasha, tlie Commander of the local Division, has been suddenly "placed on the retired list, which indicates a lack of harmony between Committee of Union and the officers of the Salonica corps. -.

TURKISH OFFICERS AT TRIPOLI

ONE HU.ND[RIED,AND FIFTY SURRENDERED.

Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock

TRIPOLI, Ootober. 17. One hundred and fifty Turkish offi•cers here have surrendered.

Many others, in Arab attire, are mixing with rfcne population in the town, waiting to proceed to Constantinople.

THE COST TO ITALY.

-MILLION A DAY

(Received O«*tober 17, 8.5 a-m.)

iROME, October 16

The newspaper, Giornale. d'ltalia, th*- organ of the Bank of Rome, says ■*£h© war has already cost Italy twenty million pounds sterling, or a mil•Kor. a day.

STARVING FAMILIES.

TURKS ORDER EXPULSIONS

"(Received Ootober 17, 9.25 a.m.) ROME, October 16. Advices from. Smyrna state that 'ltalian workmen have ibeen boycotted and that many families are starving. Neapolitan fishing vessels "have been seized. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 16. The Government has ordered the •expulsion- off all Italian professors -and schoolmasters.

VENICE ?EELS THE PINCH.

(Received October If, 8.5 a.m.)

ROME, Ootober 16. Owing to '{he boycott of Italian \- goods b.v Turks, the staff of some - of the export factories in Venice have 'been reduced by one half.