ITALIAN ATROCITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 275, 9 November 1911, Page 5

ITALIAN ATROCITIES.

FIENDISH WORK. BLOOD ( RAZED EXECFTIONERS. [rnr.ss association ■■ corrntUHT.] Malta. Nov. 8. Mr. McCullagh states that parties of Italians with revolvers in their hands marclied. literally drunk with blood and their faces Hushed and eyes bloodshot. They showed etiinplelc loss ci self-control and yelled uiidlv when their victims fell.

Their captain photographed successive seenes. .and volleys were delayed to enable him to foe;*.:; one case.

.A detachment executing 50 Arabs, including children aged ten. stuldenfv heari! shots fi:-ed. The execution-

ers were tiirov.-n into a panic and left the prisoners roped together. Ail remained silent in a bent attitude while their executioners exchanged fire with, the supposed attackers unr til they found that the shot really .ame from another body of Italians. Such exchanges of shots were frequent. and the blood-erazed fiends were unable to distinguish friends I'l om foes.

Afterwards the Arabs were forced into a hut, where they were shot one by one as they passed the door. The Hoor was an awful spectacle with tangled bodies intertwined in agony.

When the Arabs were seen to move the captain of the escort began revolver practice, shooting at Hie quivering limbs and jokingly induced other officers to join him.

LURID VERSION OF ARAB OUTRAGES. Rome, Nov. 8. The censorship has been relaxed to enable the publication of the Italian version of the so-called massacres. The correspondent of the "( orriere il'ltalia” gives a lurid version of the Arab atrocities. He states that he visited the prison where an Arab awaiting trial boasted that he had stabbed four Bersaglieri, afterwards eating their smoking flesh. The correspondent adds tli.it the Red Gross stretcher bearers and soldiers burying Arabs were continually shot, and that, one of the wounded Bersaglieri was crucified.

VOLUNTEERS FROM AUS-

TRALTA

Sydney, Nov. 8.

A number of local Italians volimteered to fight the Turks- The coqsul states that it is impossible to entertain their offers.

zb prominent Turkish business man is willing to pay the fares and provide rifles and ammunition to Turks wishing to fight for their country.

RISING IN TUNIS.

(Received 9, 9.15 a.m.)

Tunis. Nov. 8.

Owing to the municipality fixing the limits for an Arab cemetery, a thousand oi the Arab:, attacked -the surveyor. The police and soldiers were summoned and fifteen Arabs and four Italians were killed in the riot.

ACTIVITY IN CYRENATCA

Tripoli, Nov. 8.

It is oflk-iallv stated that Turks and Arabs outside Benghazi are concentrated at El Kabra, a district extending for 60 miles. The Italians in Benghazi made a reconnaissance and seized a large quantity of ammunition and some cannon which were abandoned by the Turks. THE FATAL AMBUSH. ■ SLAUGHTER. OF THE- BERSAGLIEHI. London, Nov. 3. The ‘‘Times’ ” correspondent who v.;;:: latelv at Tripoli ears the Arabs ensconced in a labyrinth of walled garden::, ilg grt.ves and cactus alleyways attacked the P»'-rsaglieri from their res', t-xi; rminating two com-

pnnies which were manning the trenches fix. nt .".nd rear. -A frightful moment ensued when the Italians realised the possibility of ten thousand rit'er, rising in IN’mlienl rage up.vn their rear. This explains the Italian bleed litri and the miserable rtampedo. The .Afabr; had a lesson which was melting iti its indUrrhnatc •.•■evei'ity. but the retribution

should have been less like an orgy of rlaugb.ter.

.ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS. INVASION OF THE OASIS. TURKS SURPRISED AND i DRIVEN BACK. j Alai.-a. Nov. S. I Directly (Iraerel Fwugtmi landed. ! m M* miry will: iO. ihmmaml :<*- ! •nh.-re t ments be r< solved on a '"illy h., Gaw th- rtmaining oasis. The I Turks ami Arabs at the iime were I tacking t-l.i* '<rencl'es cast of Hm I .own. Tie ..chemo war. ea.-ri*-l ”iiNth admiral ir.pidity and em-gy. I r; c •*. advam-ed along H*e -ea i v in a h.i-mi'Cmm resembling : i’ut- pinees*; tbrusr into the* otic's. i ~i>.. Turks w<-ro completely surpn«- ■ d, l.’t-.i made a determined r-'-'s-:<’i”-c for two hours, but were driven oil. : i:o iutr■:■:< rof the oasis by the • '.vi’dior:-: wht.se charge was cover'..p bv a field battery near HamaG'h : ... AN ITALIAN VERSION. . Brisbane. Nov. 9. : T<li grams re.-’iv< d l>y the Italian '. ..a! I *.’., rii.g the fighting in ,!i iu> o. him Ct 11 inst. state that ■ rii t’H'iT.m'C <>H t'm v.'O: h :.erii oasis ; “t, >k- < ry..T. re were ' n Itiili”.is iria p- are in very :i&h spiri-s. Tl ” Turk- r tiw I < a the hills Tim t of Trip: ’’i !i,w restlt'-eu • r-< rm:'l ap w*. Eit'■ tu.-ns is ?>ro- : •: .-iiiig as o-ual nmi the emtris ire ~.. .d m ■:!'; ■!. < ‘:;p : A ; s <. p- .; r<..m ...■•• ’ ■1 .' i ..ik ■ an I j Avabr. ■