ITALY AND TURKEY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 260, 20 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY.

POLICY OF PLI NDER. ' ITALY’S INTENTIONS. : Vienna. Oct. 19. | Il is r< pm ti d that when Tripoli (and ('yrtnaica arc occupied Italy twill, m Xuieiiilxi'. send an ultimatum to the Porte asking the Porte to accept the situation with financial comrirnsation. If rejected some islands in the Aegean Sea would be ist ized. Smyrna blockaded, and coni- | pensai ion not. only withheld, but a j war imlt utility demanded. : EGYPTIAN SYMPATHY. i London. Oct. 19. The "Daily Chronicle’s" Constantinople correspondent reports that volunteers from Egypt art 1 marching towards Benghazi under trained officers. Egyptian sympathisers supply food and ammunition. POLITICS AT THE PORTE. Constantinople, Oct. 19 The Grand Vizier, speaking in the Chamber, declares that the Government’s policy was one of peace and mutual confidence as far as the Balkans were concerned. The Government were determined to seek alliances in order to safeguard the interests <>f the Empire, and meanwhile bi the Tripolitan question to secure the solution most favourable to national interests and dignity. The Tripolitan indictment charges the Jate Hakki Cabinet with seriously weakening the defence of Tripoli ; also with allowing 200 starving people to migrate to Tunis through rhe absence of relief measures. The newspaper “Jeune Turc” expresses the hope that Turkey will Succeed Italy as a brilliant third in the Triple Alliance. Several attempts having been made to secure the ex-Sultan’s escape, a closer watch is being kept on him. HANDS OFF. YOUNG TURKEY’S HOPE. Although the Italian ultimatum came with startling O uddenness, the trouble between the two countries had been brewing for some time. On September -1 “Al Mokattam. a leading daily Arabic paper, reported that Turkey had granted to France a railway concession in Tripoli, which gave the right to build a railway 200 kilometers long. Italj noting this, and fearing that her experience in Tunis was going to be I‘epeated, threatened to send warships to Tripoli. Then the "Tannecn,” an official organ of the Young Turkish party, immediately protested against the action of Italy, and said that it was time that the nations of Europe understood that no more Interference with the internal or colonial affairs of the Ottoman Empire would be tolerated by Young Turkey. Turkey having set her house in order, the time of European interforenee was over, furkev had a constitutional Government, and intended to immediately ini prove her position and develop hvr resources to the fullest degree possible.

ANCIENT CYRENAICA. It is of interest to note that two years ago Cyrenaica was offered to Mr. Israel Zangwill, the president of the Jewish Territorial Assoemt'mix. Tor the purpose of founding a Jewish tolony there. A commission of '..v estigation was sent out. u th? control of Professor Go , nut the commission reported v-tv uni ar curably on the project. Ihe lack of water, owing to the porous nature of the soil, prohibited auv large settlement. Mr. Zangwill, in writing a preface to the report ot tin 1 commission, characcrised the result of the expedition as "tragic and unexpected.” He writes: —"The dry light of science has been turned upon the rosy Cyrenaica of literature. Its climate, its soil, and its scenery wire so beautiful that the ancients here located the Gardens of Hcspi rides. ’ So the dream of an autonomous Jewish colony in Lyrcnaica was dispelled, and the council- of tin 1 organisation decided to take no further action in regard to (’yrenc.