"A TERRIBLE MENAGE."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

"A TERRIBLE MENAGE."

SANITARY CONDITIONS IN TRIPOLI. (Australian Press Specials."* MALTA, .November 9. . Bad as it already was, the sanitary situation in Tripoli "has become infinitely worse. There is one street in the city, in which 50 dead bodies havo been lying for a week, and tho . palm groves are filled with corpses, all of which, exposed as they aro to tho fierce rays of tho sun, have long sinco become horribly decomposed, and aro now a terrible menace to tho health of the people. BER, LIN, November 9.. The reports concerning the atrocious acts of which'the Italians in Tripoli have, been guilty (have . been ..Jully . confirmed by the German Avar correspondent, . Cap-; tain Gottberg, wlm is regarded as , one of the greatest military writers in •Europe. •"- t; -- r , ". -■■' '■ ' XT.' -\ -; -.-

. .... WASHINGTON*; November -.9.. T'he Italain .jQharge d'4#airs hero. in-, dignantly denies the. reputed atrocities agkinst the Arabs iri Tripoli. . These stories, he declares, "omariate frorii r Constantinople, and are rijerely: part J„ the. Turkish carapa'gn, to o Cffeatq^syippathy., i „. . ... CONST^NTrNO^IJ^Nov "9. , ,- An Italian. eraser bpriibaraWl'kabah, [a fortified village bf ; Arabia; on the CTulf. of Akabah, andi:sanK the Tuikish gun-! boat Italidji. , „ - „ - r „ tv \r : '*?^#^vNovem^v.'9;V; Dr. Maranp^ 1 phq ItalKan' Consul in Sydney, on bem£ tfppfise'd' of "*the T Wasli- ( ingtbii cable', said" that -ithe ; opinioh " of the Charge d' Affaires coincid.ediexac'tly with, his own.. He had po^offiqiaj-infor-mation on the' mat^r, but there had been no end of contradictory "reports received, arid there beiug". in -that pai-t" of Africa so many interests conflicting .with those of Italy .there would be- little hesitation in iriahy "quai-ters' in doing, anything that Would tend 'to- discredit the Italians. War' is at .best a '"'horrible thing, and horrible occurrences were only to be expected; but such charges as were now being laid against them wero contrary to the character of chivalry that the Italian nation had for centuries bpiifle. -.:-;■■>.-•' |'r Vi mAA,