A BATTLE ON SHORE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3346, 12 October 1911, Page 5

A BATTLE ON SHORE.

IN THE SUBURBS OF TRIPOLI. A LESSON FOR THE ITALIANS. ITALY MUST SECURE ANNEXATION (United Press Association'—Copyright.) BERLIN, October 10. A local newspaper reports that the first land! engagement took place in the suburbs of Tripoli. As a result the Italians find that they must remain within range of the battleships’ guns. ROME, October 10. The first contingent left Naples on the fifth of October, and landed at Tobruk to-day. Others are leaving Taranto and Augusta, and will effect junction east of Malta. Italy does not consider coal contraband. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 10. The Porte has authorised grain vessels to pass the Dardanelles, provided they are not bound for Italian ports. This authority releases over 200 vessels in the Black Sea. ROME, October 10. The Powers have been informed that nothing short of annexation' of Tripoli will satisfy Italy. The newspapers note that Germany, through the German press, is suggesting she should receive Tobruk as a coaling station as the price of acquiescing in the Tripoli expedition. WELLINGTON, Oct. 11. A supplementai'y Gazette issued enjoins British subjects to observe strict neutrality in the Turko-Italian war. A NICHT ATTACK. TURKISH HORSEMEN REPULSED WITH LOSS. “A DESPERATE BATTLE.” (Received Oct. 11, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11. The “Times” Tripoli correspondent states that Muna Pasha, the Turkish commander, marched his forces a day’s march into the desert, and sent the impedimenta without escort further into the interior. The camel men, realising that the Turkish regime was ended, and that they were unlikely to be paid, decamped with the camels and their loads. As Turks have left their wives and artillery at Tripoli, this disposes of the idea that any serious resistance is contemplated. Tripoli advices state that 300 Turkish horsemen made a night attack on the Italian outposts, but were repulsed, abandoning their arms and ammunition. The warships maintained a heavy shell fire. In a second attack a small party of sixty Turks crept within three hundred yards of the Italians’ lines, but they retreated in face of a heavy rifle fire. There were trifling casualties. Other reports magnify the fight into a desperate battle. A PROMISE FROM THE POWERS. MORE BELLICOSE TONE IN TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct, 11. The reply of the Powers to the Porte’s circular is practically identical with a promise to examine, in concert, how to approach Italy. There is a more bellicose tone in official circles and a decided feeling in favor of the expulsion of Italians. Assim Bey has accepted Cabinet rank, and it has been decided to close Italian industrial, financial, and scholastic establishments, and to seize her steamers.

Deri Alagha, the leader of the antiHellenic boycott, instructed the Porte, Constantinople and Salonika not to handle Italian goods irrespective of the carrying vessel’s nationality.