TURKO-ITALIAN WAR.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13525, 6 November 1911, Page 5

TURKO-ITALIAN WAR.

ITALIAN VENGEANCE. Press Association.—'(Telegraph.—Copyright. TURIN (via the frontier), Nov. 4. The Stampa’s Tripoli correspondent witnessed several executions.. A man and wife- were executed for. being in possession of arms. . They calmly mot their death, holding each other’s hands. Other instances are cited. He adds that the soldiers are drunk with the lust of vengeance, and officers are obliged to exercise all their authority to restrict military excesses. , MUTILATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. TRIPOLI Nov. 4. Lieutenant Harold G. Montague, serving with the Turks, saw the mutilated bodies of 100 women and children, massacred by the Italians in revenge for heavy losses in battle. MEAT FOR ITALIANS. VIENNA, November 5. Five thousand tons of Argentine meat at Trieste were refused permission to land. Italy promptly purchased the meat, and sent it to Tripoli. ■ ITALIAN NAVAL PREPARATIONS. Fleet OfT Chios. Received November 6, 9.0 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 5. An Italian squadron of six units has been sighted oft' Chios. Chios is one Of the most beautiful and fertile islands in the Aegean Sen, belonging to Turkey, seven miles off the coast of Asia Minor, at the entrance to the Gulf of Smyrna. It is 30 miles long from north to south, by 8 to 15 miles broad, with an area of 320 square miles, and a population of 70,600, almost all Greeks. THE ALLEGED ATROCITIES. CONSTANTINOPLE. November 5. The Chamber unanimously determined to despatch a protest to the Powers against the atrocities in Tripoli. TRIBUTE TO THE ITALIANS. SOME, November 5. Foreign attaches inspected the Italian entrenchments in the suburbs, and eulogised the bearing of the troops and the measures for defence. ANOTHER ITALIAN ARMY FOR TRIPOLI. It is semi-officially announced that General Fugoni, with another army corps, is proceeding to Tripoli, The Government is determined to carry the war to a finish with the utmost, energy.