THE WAR.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1452, 2 November 1911, Page 5

THE WAR.

ITALY'S DRASTIC ACTION.

INDISCRIMINATE CARNAGE,

Rome, Yesterday,

The Italians collected only 3000 out of the 10,000 rifles distributed to the Arabs, Hence the drastic quelling of the rebellion, but many soldiers were beyond control among the infantrymen. Embarking at Bologne, an anti-mili-tarist reservistnamed 'Masetti fired at a group of officers in the barrack square, wounding the colonel. Tripoli, Yesterday, ' The Arabs attacked Horns, bu}/ were repulsed with 3000 killed. The Times' Tripoli correspondent says the tale of retribution is shockingly heavy, but the indiscriminate carnage would have been much greater had the rising, instead of being premature, occurred as intended.

THE OASIS SLAUGHTER,

HIDEOUS CRUELTIES. EUROPEAN SYMPATHY ESTRANGED.

London, Yesterday.

The Times' Tripoli correspondent, describing the slaughter at the Oasis, states that the Italians set themselves to cow the Arabs. The men got beyond control, and the innocent, suffered with the guilty. Tie hideous severity will probably'give rise to sanguinary, pitiless reprisals.

The Pall Mall Gazette says that the horrid revelation of the Oasis incident will do much to estrange European sympathy from Italy.