ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10457, 23 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

FIGHTING ONJHE FRONTIER TURKS AND BULGARIANS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) | LONDON, October 21. The Chronicle's Salonica correspondent reports that fighting has taken ,place on the frontier between the Turks and Bulgarians. The losses on both sides were heavy. BLOCKADE OF A CULF. (Received Lost Night, 5.5 o'clock.) RIO'ME, October 21. Italy is ratifying the fixed, eastern limit of th© blockade of the Gulf of Solum. A BRITISH PROTEST. BLOCKADING EGYPTIAN COAST. (Received October 21, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 2CL | Th© Graphic states that Sir Ed- . ward Grey, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has" protested against Italy's proposal to blockade two hundred J m'iles of the Egyptian seaboard. The | ancient controversy of Egypt's sea. . boundary Jtas been revived. J — i CONTACT MINES. J (Received October 21, 9.15 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 21. The Porte has officially notified the Powers that contact mines have been set at Splenica and Smyrna. ITALIAN ACCRESSION. LANDING OPOSED Ax BENGHAZI. (Received October 21, 9.30 a.m.) ROME, October 21. Italians bombarded Holms, on theTripoli coast, and destroyed the barr aides before the Turks raised the white flag. Italians landed at Benghazi, and although meeting with strenuous opposition captured the barracks By assault aftea- the fleet had twice'bombarded the town. The opposition was due to natives resenting the Italian occupation sapping the slave traffic, which is largely centred in Benghazi. Father Appolion, at the head of tli© Benghazi mission, states that young negroes were forced into slavery. Arabs conducted a trade from Wadai in the Soudan with the oonnivan/ce of the authorities. He further states that the Sultan of Wadai was tlie greatest dealer, and made armed expeditions. Children in slave Caravans were packed in twos and threes in bags, while adul'ts i were chained together. Shocking cruelties are alleged. .