THE WAR.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 254, 13 October 1911, Page 5

THE WAR.

TURKEY WANTS PEACE. THE SEIZI Bl Oi JI \R> \ TOBRUK. [I’RHSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Rome, Oct. 12. Details front Marsa TuLruk slate that the landing boats encountered a bail of bullets. The soldiers ami sailors jumped into tiie sen. w.uied ashore, answered the enemv's lire, am| charged with bayonets. GERMANY’S CLAIM DENIED. It is officially denied that Germany planned to secure Tobi uk from Turkey as a coaling stat ion. or had any intention of securing it from Italy. ITALIANS IN TURKEY. London, Oct. 12. Advices from Scutari cm the Bosporus state that, the Italians there have been informed that they will be regarded as Ottoman subjects, and if they failed to comply with the iaw they will be tried by eourtmari i ill. THIRTY MASSACRED. The Italian embassy has been informed from Alexandria, that 30 Italian workmen on the Hedjaz railway were massacred early in October. The Porte is despatching troops to Scutari. KING EMANUEL S LIFE IN DANGER. Rome. Oct. 12. Extraordinary precautions are being takon to guard the King at Naples owing to the discovery of aw Anarchist plot. ARMING THE TRIBES. Italians, finding that Benghazi was the centre of an extensive import trade in guns for the Scnussi. Sahara and W’adai tribes, measures have been adopted to stop the traffic. BALKAN COMPLICATIONS. TURKEY MUST SWALLOW THE PILL. London, Oct. 12. The Vienna correspondent of the “Times” declares that lhe world must he prepared for an enunciation of Italian sovereignty in Tripoli as Turkey could net acquiesce in a prolonged war with the danger of a Balkan complication, which would lie inevitable unless the P.iwers firmly compelled Turkey to swallow the pill.

BULGARIAN TROOPS MOBILISING. Vienna, Oct. 12. Bulgaria is quietly mobilising her first line of reserves. She is profoundly dissatisfied with the Porte's explanation regarding reinfori-e--ments at Adrianople and in Alai >■- donia. Berlin. Oct. 12. Germany seriously remonstrated with the Boric as to Bulg.it i.m dan gers arising out of the concenti at ion of troops. At liens. Oct. 12. The Malissori are excited again and are migrating to Montenegro. CONTRABAND AND MINES. London, Oct. I*2. The Foreign Office has been ad vised that Italy will not treat, coal 'or foodstuffs as contraband, whatever their destination may be. Advices apparently from a trustworthy source state that tiie Turks are mining the Dardanelles. TURKEY’S DESIRE FOR PEACE. SETTLEMENT LEFT TO THE POWERS. (Received 13, 8.5 a.nu) London, Oct. 12. The “Daily Mail’s” Constantinople correspondent had an interview with Shevket Pasha, Turkish Minister for War, who said he had plans to meet the European Powers, but none to deal with Italy’s onslaught on Tripoli. The intervention of the Powers was the most suitable way for settling the dispute. Turkey wanted peace to develop internal affairs. ITALIAN TRANSPORTS ARRIVE AT TRIPOLI. TURKISH TROOPS IN SORE STRAITS. MANY DESERTIONS. (Received 13, 8.5 a.m.) Tripoli. Oct. 12. Twenty two transports' have arrived. The Turkish troops are unsheltered and exposed to the sun and Blind ing sand. I'ood is short and lever prevalent. There are many desertions. SUBMISSION OF ARABS. (Received 13, 8.5 a.m.) R.'me, Oct. 12. Vice-Admiral FaraveUi. in a ]>;■'•- clamation at Tripoli, promises compensation for damage done by t':.' bombardment. Three thousand Arabs have stiomitted. TURKS CAPTURE PRIZES. (Reei ived 13, 8.5 a.m.) R.mie, (Id. 12. The Turks captured two rtnt'.'.n sailing vessels at Jt:is*i;wan. FOREIGN INTERVENTION. FIVE POWERS CONSI I.TIW. (Received 13. 10. I" a.m.) Paris. Oct. 12. The five Orest Powers, besides e iiltavcuimg to mediate Imtwe.ii Italv and Turkey, are intervening i<> Ct-move the tension Intucen 'liuki v ami Bulgaria.

THE WORST ENEMY. OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA, (Rect ivcd 13. 12.i0 p.m.) Tripoli. Oct. 12. Cholera has broken out in the town. Four deaths have taken place already. Ti RkHH Vb'Mi)' COUPS. DOES NOT BELIEVE IN PEACE AT ANY PRICE. (Revoiv ed !3. I 1.45 a.m.) ('(•nstamitu.-ple, Oct. 12. The Army Corps at Salonika has threatened to march on Constantinople in (lie event . f peace being agreed to at the present juncture.