REFUGEES FROM TRIPOLI.
Malta. Yesterday. The steamer Caslle Grath has arrived from Tripoli with twelve hundred refugees huddled on deck. She was three days in a continuous storm of rain, and the snll'ering was terrible, the sets sickness being very bail. Owing to bring without, carm She steamer pitched horribly and ill" re ft]gees were repeatedly thrown on the decks. Seven went raving mail as a result of their experience.®, and others iiad their minds unhinged. Tin' majority are penniless. Many fell on their knees, imploring aid of journalists and officials boarding the Castle Grath, and clamoured for food and wafer, holding op emaciaU o, children. The refugees state an infuriated mob of Arabs and Turks besieged the Italians in their Consulate until a battalion of Turkish infantry escorted them to the Castle Grsth. whence t.he Admiral transferred the Italian refugees to another ship, owing to their crowded condition.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 401, 4 October 1911, Page 5
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