The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1911. “HORRIDA BELLA.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 6 October 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1911. “HORRIDA BELLA.”

Though it is Avar in real earnest bctAveen. Italy and Turkey', and loss of life and untold suffering must follow, there are certainly points of humour oven in the grim game going on at Tripoli. Of course the cable man is bound to put in his purple patches, and Ave sympathise with him in these blase days in the endeavour to find something that will tickle the public palate. The statement in this morning’s messages that the bombardment resembled a shooting competition, officers and men betting on the results of particular shots, really has a lino artistic touch, and the following statement of the batteries that disappeared, is a Avell-told tale. Certainly avg miss in this contest the businesslike detail that Avas supplied during the American-Spanish Avar, such as how the fleets ceased firing for breakfast at 8 a.m., but that there is a very businesslike person at the head of the Italian Marine is indicated by another of this morning’s messages, which tells us that the Minister of Marine has instructed the admirals to avoid unnecessary damage, and to remember that Tripoli will soon bo Italian, and the greater the damage done the'greater will be the expense in repairing. This is sound commonsense no doubt, but at the same time Almost Gilbertian in its humour. War hi modern times progresses, we suppose, on very modern lines, and probably the day is not too far distant when the programme will bo announced in advance in the advertising columns of the world’s principal newspapers, while enterprising shipping companies will run excursion steamers to time-table, to enable leisured people to witness special effects such as bombardments and similar stirring stage effects on land and water.