ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10466, 2 November 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

TURKISH SUGUE&btS AT TRIPOLI OFFICIALLY DECLARED BASELESS.

fUeceived This Morning, 12.10 o'clock

ROME, November 1

Tho.Turkish, reports of the defeats of the Italians at Tripoli are officially declared as baseless.

ARAB ATTACK.

ATTEMPT TO TAKE HOMS

ATTACKERS LOSE HEAVILY

(Received Novem'ber 1, 8.10 a.m.)

TRIPOLI, October, 31

'Arab's attacked Horns (56 miles «ast' north-east of Tripoli), recently occupied by the Italians, but were repulsed, three thousand being killed.

COLLECTION OF ARMS.

REASON FOR DRASTIC ACTION.

((Received November I, 8.7 a.m.)

ROME, October. 31

The Italians collected only three thousand out of ten thousand rifles that Ead been distributed to the Arabia; hence the drastic quelling of the insurrection. Many of the sol'diers got beyond control, however.

SLAUGHTER DESCRIBED.

INNOCENT'AND GUILTY SUFFER ALIKE.

(Received November 1, 9 a.m.)

LONDON,' October 31. The Tripoli correspondemit of 'line Times, describing the slaughter of Arabs at the oasis, saysi that the Italians set themselves* to cow the Arabs. The men got beyond con--'<trol,and the innocent suffered with the guilty. The hideous severity, he adds, will possibly- give, rise to sanguinary and pitiless reprisals. The Pall Mall Gazette the horrible revelation of the doings at ' the oasts will do much to estrange European sympathy from Italy.

SHOCKINGLY HEAVY TOLL.

INDISORIMINATE CARNAGE

(Received November 1, 8.10 a.m.)

LONDON, October 31

The Tripoli correspondent of The Times saysi the toll of Italian re'triImtiqn was shockingly heavy, but the indiscriminate carnage would have been much greater had the Arab rising, instead of being, premar ture, occurred as intended. -..