ITALY AND TRIPOLI.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 241, 28 September 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TRIPOLI.

ITALIAN DEMANDS

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Rome, Sept. 27

An Italian Note to Turkey demands guarantees for the pro!eel ion cf Italians, and adds tlmt the despatch of reinforcements i.< Tripoli would be regarded as nn ctremeiy serious act. It is mrlei ii .1 tlial the guarantees arc equivalent to stmie f./i tn of protect orate.

TI’RKEY STRIVES FOR INTERVENTION.

Constantinople, Sept. 27

Although the Young Turks are greaily excited against Italy, tinPorte expresses its tin willingness to remedy any legitimate grievances and is now si fining to secure Germany’s and Aust.ria’s friendly inlervent ion.

TROOPS AND WARSHIPS

Constantinople, Sept. 27.

The departure of Colonel Fenzi. Chief of Staff of the Salonika Army Corps, has been postponed. Italian warships are cruising off Tripoli. FLEEING THE COUNTRY. BRITISH SUBJECTS APPEAL FOR TRANSPORT. (Received 28, 10.20 a.m.) London, Sept. 27.

There are three hundred Italian subjects and eight hundred protected aliens in Tripoli. Britain has four thousand subje .-is, including three thousand Maltese. The Anglo-Maltese colony imnlore the Government for help to ■ miLlr them to leave the place as the Italian steamers are only caryinrg their own countrymen.

TURKISH RIGHTS IN TRIPOLI

(Received 28, 10 20 a. m.) Paris, Sept. 28.

Rifaat Pasha ex-presses surprise at the situation and declares there is no Tripolitan question. Landing nt Tripoli was in no way different from Smyrna or Salonica. Tripoli is not a colony, but a vital part of the empire. Turkey would have to defend its very existence as sovereign of the State. AN ITALIAN VIEW. Dr. Tittoni, Italian Ambassador hero, when interviewed, said that without questioning Patffia Rifaat’s good faith, he questioned the good faith of the Tripolitan officials, whose attitude never agreed with the good words of the Government in Constantinople.

EXCITEMENT IN TRIPOLI.

ITALIANS FEAR A MASSACRE. (Received 98, 10.20 a.m London, Sept. 27. Private advices front Tripoli state that on receipt of the news that the Italians contemplate the occupation of Tripoli all business places were closed. The Arabs gathered in the mosques and decitied to resist their landing to the last, and if compelled to yield then to seek British protection. Advices received from Malta state that Italian warships with an expeditionary force are lying twenty miles off Tripoli. The Italian residents fear a massacre if landing is attempted.