ARAB ATROCITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 7

ARAB ATROCITIES.

CRUCIFIED. lAIPALED ON STAKES, REPORT OV ENGLISH CORRESPONDENTS. • By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrlghl (Rcc. November 30, 11.20 p.m.) London, November 30. English correspondents.at Tripoli give details of a visit paid to Elhonui, tbo scono of Arab atrocities on October 23. They state that 2S Italians woro found horribly mutilated, including one wearing the Red Cross badge; others were crucified or impale! on stakes; in ono case the eyeball was stitched through with coarso palm string; and seven Borsaglieri were discovered with burned heads above the ground, hands cut off, and with agonised expressions, justifying tho presumption that they were buried alive. There were many other atrocious cases. THE DARDANELLES. Paris, November 29. The French Government is supporting Russia's protest against Turkey's action in improving the defences of the Dardanelles. THE TRIPOLI MASSACRE. LORD ROBERTS'S OPINION. London, November 29. Ficld-Jlarshal Lord Roberts, replying to a correspondent, said it ivas totally unfair to criticise tho late Italian Com-mander-in-Chief at Tripoli (General Cancva) without adequate information being available. No soldier would credit the reports that women and children had been deliberately killed. A desperate situation warranted desperate measures, and tho severest action was usually the most humane. That the innocent suffered with the guilty was inevitable in war.