THE ARAB SLAUGHTER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1275, 2 November 1911, Page 5

THE ARAB SLAUGHTER.

ITALIAN CARNAGE AT TRIPOLI.

LONDON COMMENT.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, October 31.

The Tripoli correspondent of "Tho Times" says the toll of Italian rotribution was shockingly heavy, hut tho indiscriminate carnago would have been much greater had tho Arab rising, instead of bping premature, occurred as intended. Describing the slaughter of Arabs at tho oasis, "Tho Times" correspondent says that tho Italians set themselves to cow tho Arabs. The men got beyond control, and tho innocent suffered with the guilty. Tho hideous severity, he adds, will possibly give riso to sanguinary and pitiless reprisals.

The "Pall Mall Gazette" says tho horrid revelation of tho doings at tho oasis will do much to estrange European sympathy from Italy.

BASELESS REPORTS. . ARABS RETAIN RIFLES. (Rec. November 2, 0.30 a.m.) Rome, November 1. Turkish reports of th» dctoats of the Italians in Tripoli aro officially declared to be baseless. The Italians collected only three thousand out of ten thousand rifles that had been distributed to tho Arabs; henco the drastic quelling of tlio insurrection. Many of the soldiers got beyond control, however.

Among the infantrymen embarking at Bologna was an anti-militarist reservist named Jlasotti. Ho fired at a group of officers in tho barrack square, wounding a colonel.

AN ARAB REPULSE. Tripoli, October 31. Arabs attacked Horns (58 miles eost-north-co«t of Tripoli), recently occupied by the Italians, but were Tepulsed, three thousand being killed.