TRIPOLI IN ARMS AGAINST SPANISH RULE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16870, 27 October 1925, Page 9

TRIPOLI IN ARMS AGAINST SPANISH RULE.

MUSSOLINI DESPATCHES REINFORCEMENTS. TURKS BEHIND NEW UPRISING.* PARIS, Sept. 9.—A1l Tripoli is now ablaze in a revolt against Italy. Premier Mussolini litis sent 3CO .additional airplanes and 20,000 additional troops to Tripoli, and the official Stefaui Agency finally admitted to-day tliaL there is a widespread uprising. “The Italian aviators are extremely active and are bombarding without rest groups of Senussi and their herds, inflicting heavy losses on men and animals,” Stefani announces significantly.” ITALIANS DRIVEN BACK TO COAST. 'the Italians, who have never pacified the interior of this vast country, apparently are being driven back to the coast with considerable losses. The revolt bus been openly directed by Sheik Ahmed Senussi, exiled chief of 70,030,900 members of the Senussi confraternity in Northern and Central Africa. Sheik Ibn Said recently up pointed him Emir of Mecca as the first step to-the caliphate of Islam. The Turkish Government, which has never forgiven Italy for seizing Tripoli during the Balkan troubles, has sent military instructors via Egypt to train the Senussi in modern warfare, and has smuggled large quantities of arms and munitions to Tripoli in Turkish fishing boats, which slip through the Italian naval blockade at night. WILL ITALY SEIZE WESTERN ANATOLIA? Another reason for the Turkish assistance is that MusLapha Kemul Pasha and the group of military leaders .around him arc convinced that Premier Musso-lini-is going to try to seize all of West ern Anatolia on the first pretext and at a time when the British might get Italian help in the Mosul dispute Kemal wants to keep the Italians busy in Tripoli. The French in Algeria and Tunis arc now caught between one serious Moliaim Medan uprising in Morocco and another Mohammedan uprising in Tripoli, and the grip of all the European Powers in North Africa is seriously shaken. KEMAL ATTEMPTING TO APPROACH SUEZ. Kemal is really playing a deep game, thcjbig stake being !o get within air bonfbardent distance of the Suez Canal, in order to have a. club against Great Britain. He thinks Great Britain is bound In be an ’ enemy of, Turkey, because Turkey's success in winning its freedom will encourage Egypt and India. Kemal is trying to approach Suez via Egypt as well as via Syria.