ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

lAALIAN ATROCITIES "DRUNK FOR BLOOD."

EXEDUTIOS OiF AItAKS

AN AWFUL SPECTACLE

(Received Last NigjHjfc, 11.25 o'clock.)

MALTA, November 8

Mr MacCullaglh, a war correspondent, states' tlhat pur.ties of Italians:, with revolvers in liland, miarohed literally drunk for blood, with faoe,s fluslhed and eyes bloodclliot, and a comiplete leys of self-control. , Tlliey yelled wildly wlhen the vdctinte foil.

A capita ki photographed the successive scenes.

Volleys were delayed to enable him to focus: Jn one oaise a detachment was executing fifty Arabs, including chdliken aged ten, when they siiddenly beard' shots fired. The exeoutionens were tlwowm into a panic, and left the pristmea-s roped together. . All remained silent in' bent attitudes while the executioners exchanged frro with the supposed atflackers, until it' was found tdia-t the tlhots were really from another body of Italians.

Such exchanges of shots were frequent, the bipod-crazed fiends being unable to distinguish friend® from foes.

Afterwards the Arabs were forced to a hut, where they were sfaiot one by one as they pasisted the door. ■ The floor was an awful spectacle of tangled bodies, intertwined with 1 agony.

Winch the Arabs were seen to move the captain of the escort began revolver practice by shooting at the quivering lambfe.

He joked and induced other officers to join.

AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEERS.

(Received Last Nigjhit, 9.35 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, November 8,

A number of i local Italians Wave volunteeered to fighlt the Turks. The Oonsiul states, however, that it is imA pjosisiMe to entertain the offer su A prominent Turkish businessi man has expressed Tils wiMngnesis to pay the fares and provide rifles and ammunition for Turks wiisJhiug to fight for their country.

REPORTED ITALIAN SUCCESS.

FORT TAKEN FROM TURKS,

(Received November 8, 9.45 p.im.)

ROME; November 7

An Italian Brigade hasi ocoujpied an advanced position at th».. oasis. The Italian's also' occupied tfliellamidaeh fort aflter a slight resistance. The enemy were driven back'. The recapture'of Derna by Turks is denied.