THE WAR.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1457, 8 November 1911, Page 5

THE WAR.

Turkish Artillery Busy BOMBARDING THE ITALIAN OAMP. MORE ABOUT THE MASSACRES A TALE OF BEDODIN BRAVERY' Received November 7, 11p.m. Rome, Last Night. The Turkish artillery bombarded f'tlio Italians throughout Monday, concluding with an attack on the Italian lelt until Dine at night. Aeroplanes dropped bombs into the Turkish camp. The heavy downpours indicate that the rainy season is commencing. The correspondent of the Turin Stampa stites that Italian soldiers are inebriated with a last of vengeance. He nutates that after other executions a huaband and wife, two splendid types of Bedouios, were led to a wall, took one another's bauds aud repeated a prayer. The soldiers levelled their rifles aud the husband was shot, bat the woman did not flinch.

The order was then given to fire and the rifles were levelled and she was killed.

Lata- an old ffoman was charged with concealing cartridges under her rags. She was forced to strip, though feiguing modesty to prevent tl)3 search, She was finally shot,

Malta, Last Niglit

1 There beou 46 snspeoted cases of cholera and 29 deaths in a fortnight The ontbreak is well under control.

Derna Recaptured. ANOTHER .TURKISH VICTORY. Constantinople, Last Night. Buyer Bey and the Senussi chiefs telegraphed that the Turks had seized Derna. The Italians lost 500 killed and numerous prisoners and eighteen guns, and the Turks 80 killed aad 80 wounded. ITALIAN ATROCITIES. SCENES OP HORROR. ITALIANS PARALYSED WITH FEAR. (Press Association.—By Telegraph.Copyright). London, Yesterday, Mr M'Oulagh, the Westminster Gazette's cortespondemt in Tripoli, Las returned his papers to General Caoeva, as a protest against the atrocities, Mr M'Oulliagk photographed scenes of hoirirar, wMch 3io, describes as worse tkii amy Russian 'pogrom or Armenian massacres. Four thousand women and chiarai were shot, and 4000 men, of whom not ut kindred were guilty. M'CulJiagh. saw' 50 men and children executed in a batch. Cripples and Mind beggars were deliberately shot and sick people ,whose houses were burned. w«e feft on the ground and were refused a drop of water. The Italian soldiers are paralysed with fear, as tho enemy's persistency day and night is affecting their imaginations and nerves.

CHOLERA AND "PESTILENTIAL

STENCH."

Advices from Malta state that the bodies of fifty cholera victims were collected in the streets of Tripoli on Sunday, forty cholera oases l being reported daily in the Italian Army. There is a pestilential stench arising at the oasis where the recent massacra occurred.

MORE ITALIAN PROFESSIONS,

Koine, Yesterday,

General Frugoni is superceding Caneva, who is appointed Governor of Tripoli. The Italian message to the Powers states that the continuous success of the Italian arms renders insistence useless. If peace is signed, it will enable Italy's policy to be inspired by her interest in the maintenance of the territorial status quo in the Balkans, The majority of the crew were rescued, whereof the consolidation of Turkey is an essential factor.

An Italian cruiser sank a Turkish transport at Akbah, in the Red Sea.