"Blood Crazed."

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1458, 9 November 1911, Page 5

"Blood Crazed."

Tiendish Atrocities by Italian Soldiers. /A CORRESPONDENT'S LURID description. LITERALLY DRUNK WITH BLOOD. REVOLVER PRACTICE ON. ' DYING ARABS. (Press Asoociation—By Telegraph.— Copyright). Received November 8,1125 p.m. Malta, Last Niglit. Mr McCullagh, coriespondent of the Westminster Gazette, states that parties of Italians, revolvers in hand, marched literally drank with blood, i their faces flushed, and eyes bloodshot, and evidencing complete loss of s : lf-control. They yelled wildly ■When their vMims fell. A captain photographed successive sc°n c s, and volleys were delayed to suable a focus to be obtained. In one cai?e a detachment was exe - cuting 50 Arabs, including children ■ and aged people, when they suddenly heard shots fired. The executioners ■ were thrown into a panic, anl left their prisoners roped together. All 'remained silent in bent attitudes, while their executioners exchanged fire with supposed attackers, until they found the shots were really from another body of Italiais. Such exchanges of shots ate frequent, the blood-orazed fiends being unable to distinguish friends from foes. Afterwards the Arabs were forced into a hut, where they were shot one "by one as they passed through the door. The floor presented an awful spectacle of tangled bodies intertwined in agony. When the Arabs were seen to move the captain and escort began revolver practice, shooting at the quivering limbs. They laughed and joked and induced other officers to join.