ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10467, 3 November 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

THE TRIPOLI OiSTURSANCES

DESULTORY CANNONADE.

(Received Lv.yb NOgbit, 10.10 o'clock.)

TRIPOLI, November 2. The Turks are maintaining a detulicry cjauJoimee. of the town. A sheilii) oxpLljUxcL in a ta'euuih, wounding several iialCuns. The cruiser Carlo Alberto's' gums scattered the enemy, putting a nation of the battery out of action. -Four remaining guns weire eapured. An aid-man dropped four bombs on the enemy's camp at Ainzana, causing a stampede of k'or&es and soldiers.

ITALIAN AGGRESSION.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 2

Turkish r.tv.vpiapere., i:i>.rp>lred by oumouirs cf victa-ies, suggci&t tliiat the Plov.eir/s which foiled to take sftie'pß to prevent'the ltai : aa aggression, must be requested to renounce the capitulatory rr'tuhts. Thoy add that Austria-Hungary and Germany have; given promir.es to that effect'.

GERMAN SYMPATHIES.

ON THE SJB'E OF THE TURKS

RERUN, November 2

German ..j-rripatlii'C'S are whloly on the side of the Turks,, whose version of fighting is geiwraMy accepted by the Press. This attitude is afftrdbuted to the belief that. Germany'* position VNicukl -Dccome earier if her ally suffers adversity.

CONFLICTING STATEMENTS

POSITION AT TRIPOLI

(Received November 2, 8.10 a.m.)

ItONDON, November; 1

The' Italian. Emlfoasisy states: that there hot* nod been any rigihitdng at Tripoli siinoe 26tth October., The TurkisQi 'Embassy atseWte-tiiat the Turkish troops .penetrated Tri*poli on the 25th October, and drove the Italians within the town.

Fighting was -renewed on thie 28th, wflien the Italians evacuated two forts.

SHEVKET PASHA'S DENIAL.

NO CRUSHING ITALIAN DEFEAT.

(Received November 2, 10 a.m.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 1

SSievkot Pastha, Turkish. Minister for War, denies the ston-y of a crushing lalian defeat. He States, how-ev-er, that the TV.iks- recapfUired. several positions, savd thlat the rival armies are how face to face.

RECENT ARAB ATTACK.

INDISCRIMINATE SLAUGHTER BY ITALIANS DENIED.

(Bocvi\ed .November 2>5.20 a.m.)

ROME, November 1

The story of the indiscriminate daiilghter of Arab® at Tripoli is officially denied.

It'is stated that the. Arabs, after submitting, t-rcaoheroucZy attacked the Italians in the rear.

Only those who were carrying arme, or after a regular trial, we snot. Others, to the number of 2200 who were flavouring treachery, were deported' to Italian islands.. In destroying the shelter on the oihmi, where the Arabs had been allowed to remain, oare was taken by the Italians to remiove inoffemuve \raha and women and ohiildren. On the other hand. ,* -.s fllearty <&■ tabfened, that the enemy oomlmfatted aloiEOMiMe de«l» on the Ttalwin ■vvoun'died.

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