Driven to the Sea

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1455, 7 November 1911, Page 5

Driven to the Sea

Turkish Victories Confirmed

Italians Abandon the Outer Works. CAN ONLY RETREAT TO THE SEA. TURKS OOOUPY AN IDEAL . POSITION. ITALIAN TROOPS DEEPLY DEPRESSED. (Ptees Association.—By Telegraph.— Copyright). Reoeivocl 9.60 p.m. Malta, Last Night. Renter's Tripoli correspondent, Who is able to give an unbiassed report, states that if correspondents at Tripoli stated facts they would im* mediately ba expelled. The Turkish forces in the engagemPDts of the 23rd and 26th Ootober did not number more than two thousand, yet they inflioted losses of at least one thonEand.

The Italian line was broken ou the »in two places by less than two handled Arabs, whm rushed the 84th Regiment at dawn and gained the cover of the oasis.

One hundred dismounted Italian cava'ry saved the situation by a charge, killing the majority of the Arabs,

Thirty of'the Arabs, however held she position for three hours until it was blown up by General Caneva became so alarmed that he abandoned the outer works, including the Turkish fort of Mesri.

The Italian army worked feverishly to render the inner, position impregnable with entanglements of barbed wires.

Turks and Arabs are now holding the casiß, where there is ample food, and where every orchard and garden affords natural defences. It is an ideal position. The Turks advanced aa far as the •Italian line, and their artillery dropped shell into General (Jaueva's headquarters. The Italians ha°e been driven to a point whence they oannot retire except to the sea. The troops have passed from the greatest elation to deep depression. Sandstorms are occurring daily, -With soaking rains at night. Further there are many oases of cholera, including numbers of the Italian troops. N

Italian Brutalities Denied

GENERAL OANEVA ACCUSES THE TURKISH TROOPS.

OF MUTILATING ITALIAN BODIES.

Received 10.58-p.rn. Tripoli, Last Night. General Oaneva, interviewed, denies the allegations of cruelty and

massacres by the Italians, and accuses the Turks of stripping Italians / naked, and shockingly and disgust-

ingly mutilating the bodies. The Standard estimates the attackers on the 26th as 8000 Tarks and 16,000 Arabs. The Italians lost 6000 including , Iwo battalions, which snrrendered.

ANOTHER TURKISH VICTORY.

Constantinople, Last Night. An imbportant victory on Novem"bar Ist is repotted, and the Talks tcoapied the Italian cavalry barracks and secured large quantities o( ammunition and provisions. A Startling Statement. MASSACRE MESSAGES * COUNTERSIGNED.

BY ORDER OF BRITISH CONSUL

GERMAN AND AMERICAN COR RESPONDENTS DISGUSTED.-

Reoeived 11 p,m

Malta, Last Nigbt.

A Renter's Tripoli correspondent makes a sworn statement that the reports of massacres by Italians wera countersigned by the correspondents of the Morning Post and Daily Minor, at, he declares, the request of the British Consul at Tripoli. The correspondents ol the New YorkWoild and the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger Bre so dissusted that they have handed passes to General Caneva and retted farther dealings with the Italian army.

A Reign of Terror.

STORY OF THE MASSACRE.

INDISCRIMINATE EXECUTION.

. - • •• ■ A WELL-PROTECTED QBNBRAL HEYER LEAVES BOMB PROOF SHELTER. The statement affirms that nntil Octobßr 2iJrrt the Italians treated the Arabs kiirlly. Arabs were rierhtly shot In the South-Eastern portion. of tliu oasis, font afterwards General Oaneva ordered that all Arabs with aims in the oasis should b3 shot. Finding that the Arabs were hilling their arms the order was changed to shoot all Who were reasonably suspected of bearing arms. Bodies of excitvl soldiery, often without officers, scoured the oasis for four days, indiscriminately shootin? Arabs regardless of whether tliey partook iu the attack on Barsaglieri. Several parties of 50 or 60 Arabs, men and boys, were collected, fchair hands tied and marched to vacant places and shot without trial. Others were shot while working in the gardens, and some .were bayunetted and dubbed to death On the fourth day after the Jo-

called insurrection the correspondent saw a detachment • meet three weaponless Arabs, obviously men of property, who werj shot without a word of explanation. Others fruin Tripoli state that there is a reign of terror. House to lioosa searches cntiuUe, and Buminary puuislnuent is meted ont on the least preteuce, batons of 60 being executed after a minute's trial before a tribunal of officers.

York World correspondent violently attacks General Uaneva and alleges that he is never outside a bomb-proof sln-lta'. The writer adds that the A rubs only mutilated curpsts alt°.r tliß Italian massacre.

THE SITUATION AT TRIPOLI,

Rome, Yesterday,

Foreign attaches inspected the Italian entrenchments in the suburbs, and eulogised the hearing of the traopa and the measures for defence. It is semi-officially announced that General Erugoni, with ianot3ietr Army Corps, is proceeding to Tripoli. Govorninent is determined to oarnry the war to a finish with the utmost enierigy.

A "SOMBRE PICTURE OP THE SITUATION."

London, Yesterdav.

, Renter's correspondent, wliio has arrived at Malta from Tripoli, phuts a sombre picture of the situation, there. He states Tripoli ia practically besieged, the Arabs bidding four-fifths of the oasis. Their retirement greatly discouraged the troops. Caneva's orders were directly responsible for the slaughter of Arabs.