TRIPOLI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 35, 26 September 1911, Page 5

TRIPOLI.

WHAT DOES ITALY MEAN? EXCITEMENT IX TURKEY. ißy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Constantinople, September 25. Official circles are alarmed at the Italian Vice-Consul at the Dardanelles boarding the Societ.i Nazionalcs’ steamer Romania, compelling the missengers for Constantinople to lan 1 within half an hour, the Romania returning to Italy without landing mails. Several Italian merchant steamers have left Ottoman ports at the instance of the Italian Consuls, without cargoes. One explanation is that it is a precaution against the impending boycott of Italian goods and shipping. The Porte has demanded Italy’s explanation of the foregoing movements. Humours of the landing of Italian troops at Tripoli has intensified the excitement. AUSTRIA CONCERNED. Vienna, September 25. The Tripolitan question is causing great disquiet in Austria. It is feared that Turkish resentment will be vented in Bosnia and Herzegovina. FRANCE’S ATTITUDE. London, September 25. There are indications that France will be benevolently neutral in the Tripolitan question. ITALY’S INTENTIONS. (Received 26, 8.5 a.m.) Rome, September 25. The Reservists born in 1888 number 90,000. Italy seeks to lease Tripoli, and offers to maintain Turkish suzerainty. In the event of a refusal or menace to Italian safety, Italy would send 00,000 troops. The Turkish garrison at Tripoli is estimated at 30,000. London, September 25. The “Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent states that the Turko-Itali-an quarrel is the result of the Agadir incident, and is calculated to neutralise the advantages Germany expected from a careful nursing of Younk Turkey ; also a reconciliation of Turks with Austria-Hungary, and the encouragement of Austrian and Turkish naval ambition. Renter’s Malta correspondent states that the cruiser Medea has been ordered eastwards under sealed orders. ROCKS AHEAD. ' (Received 26, 8.5 a.m.) Paris, September 25. According to “Matin” Turkey, after refusing to release Tripoli, an too need that if Italian warships were sent there, she would,expel 50,000 Italians ’who reside in the Turkish Empire, and boycott Italian trade. In that cm r.t Italy would declare war. THE ALLEGED PIRACY. (Received 26, 10.35 a.m.) ; Cairo, September 25. In reference to yesterday’s cable regarding the reported seizure of the iuer Reina Marghorita by Turks, the scene of the reported capture was Mcrjina, which is in Asia Minor, not Messina, in Sicily.