The Italian Version.

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

The Italian Version.

iota* BESTIAL ATROCITIES BY ARABS. BED CROSS WORKERS SHOT. A WOUNDED SOLDIER CRUCIFIED. Received November 9, 1.20 a.m. Rome. Last Night. The censorship of news has been relaxed .to enable the publication .of the Italian version of the so-called massacres.' i A correspondent of the Oonriere D'ltalia gives 1 a lurid version of Arab atrocities. He.states he visited a prison in •whioh an Arab, trial, boasted of having stabbed four Ber•saglieri, afterwards eating their mokirig 3esb. The correspondent adds that as the Red Cross stretcher hearer soldiers were burying the dead the Arabs continually sbot at them. ' One wounded Bersagliri was oruciBed. BRITISH OPINION, London, Yesterday. A deputation of the inter-Parlia-.'mentary Union waited on the Premier and asked Government to take the earliest opportunity to mediate in Tripoli, if possible in concert with the other Powers. Mr Asquith and Sir E. Grev explained the difficulty of acting until there was a prospect of success. The Speaker firmly repressed Mr D. Mason's attempts to move the aajournment of the House of Commons to discuss the atrocities. x AN ITALIAN DENIAL. Eome, Yesterday, Aii Italian brigade occupied an advanced position at the oasis and oc- , cupied Hamidieh fort after a slight re- : sistance. The enemy was driven back ..and the recapture of Derna is denied.