POWERS AND TURKEY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1257, 12 October 1911, Page 5

POWERS AND TURKEY.

REPLY TO PORTE'S APPEAL. EXPULSION OF ITALIANS AND BOYCOTT. RUMOURuD GERMAN DEMAND. By TclccraDli—Press Associatlon-Copyrißlit (Rec. October 11, 11 p.m.) Constantinople, October 11. The reples of tho Powers to the Porto s circular appealing for intervention aro practically identical. The Powers pro-mi.-o to examine in concert how to approach Italy. There is now a moro ljcllicoso tono in official circles and a decided feeling in favour of tho expulsion of Italians from Turkey. Assim Bey has accepted the portfolio of Foreign Affairs in tho new Cabinet. The. Cabinet, has decided to closo the Italian industrial, financial, and scholastic establishments in Turkey and to seizo all Italian steamers. Derimagha, tlio leader of tho AntiHellenic boycott of last year, has instructed the Porto at Constantinople and Saloniki not to handlo Italian goods, irrespective of the nationality of the carrying vessels. GERMANY WANTS A PORT. PRICE OF ACQUIESCENCE. Rome, October 10. Tho Powers have been informed that nothing short of the annexation of Tripoli will satisfy Italy. The newspapers note that Germany, through the press, is suggesting she should receive Tobruk as a coaling station as the price of her acquiescing in the Tripoli expedition. LAND ENCOUNTERS AT TRIPOLI. TURKISH BAGGAGE STOLEN. (Rec. October 11, 11 p.m.) London, October 11. The Tripoli correspondent of "The Times" states that Jluna Pasha, the Turkish commander in Tripoli, marched his forces a day's march into tho desrt, and cent their impedimenta unescorted further into the interior. The camel-man, realising that tho Turkish regimo was ended and that ho was unlikely to be paid, decamped with the camcls and their loads. As the Turks have left wives and artillery at Tripoli, this disposes of tho idea that serious resistance is contemplated. Other Tripoli advices state that 300 Turkish horsemen made a night attack, on tho Italian outposts, and were repulsed and forced to abandon their arms and ammunition. A warship maintained a. heavy shell fire. In a second attack a small party of sixty Turks crept three hundred yards within tho Italian lines, but retreated in the faco of a heavy rifio fire. The casualties wero trilling. Other reports magnify the encounter into a desperato battle. A GERMAN VERSION. Berlin, October 10. A local newspaper reports the first land engagement of tho war, which took place in one of the suburbs of Tripoli. As a result, the Italians find that they must remain within range of their battleships' guns.