TALE OF RETRIBUTION.

Mataura Ensign, 1 November 1911, Page 5

TALE OF RETRIBUTION.

loiasioo o! Tripoli. HORRORS OF WAR. «1 ELECTRIC TELEGBAPH. COPYBIOHT. PBR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received November 1, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 31. The Tripoli correspondent of "The Times' says the tale of retribution has been shockingly heavy, but the indiscriminate carnage would have been much greater had the rising instead of being premature occurred as intended. THE OASIS SLAUGHTER. INNOCENT AND GUILTY. Received November 1, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 31. The Tripoli correspondent of 'The Times,' describing the slaughter at tne oasis, states that the Italians set themselves to cow the Arabs. The men got beyond control, and the innocent suffered with the guilty. The hideous severity will probably give rise to sanguinary and pitiless reprisals. ESTRANGING SYMPATHY. Received November 1, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 31. The 'Pall Mall Gazette' says that the horrid revelation of the oasis incident will do much to estrange European *■ sympathy from Italy. A great drawback to operations in the attack on Tripoli was an oasis, many square miles in extent, lying between the outpost line and Tripoli, consisting of residences and gardens, also the dwellings of a large portion of the native population. Here great slaughter occurred on both sides. 3000 ARABS KILLED. Received November 1, 8.5 a.m. TRIPOLI, Oct. 31. The Arabs attacked Horns, but were repulsed, 3000 being killed. The Italians recently bombarded Homs, Syria, 56 miles east-north-east of Tripoli, and destroyed the barracks before the Turks put up the white flag.

THE ARABS' ARMS. Received November 1, 8.5 a.m. ROME, Oct. 31. The Italians collected only 3000 out of 10,000 rifles which were distributed to the Arabs; hence the drastic quelling of the insurrection, but many of the soldiers got beyond control. RASH ANTI-MILITARIST. Received November 1, 8.5 a.m. ROME, Oct. 31. Among the infantrymen who were embarking at Bologna for Tripoli was an anti-militarist reservist named who fired at a group of officers the barrack square, wounding a cdjpnel.