THE WAR.
SLAUGHTER. OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
ALLEGED BRUTALITY OF ITALIAN SOLDIERS.
DRUNK WITH THE LUST FOR VENGEANCE.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigi t.) (United Press Association.) Turin (via the frontier), Nov. 4. Stampas, a Tripoli correspondent, reports witnessing several executions.
A man and his wife were’executed for the possession of arms, and calmly met thoir death, holding each other’s hands.
Other instances arc—cited, and lie adds that the soldiers are drunk with the lust for vengeance, and oilicors are obliged to exercise all their authority to restrict military excesses. Tripoli (via Tunis), Nov. 4. Lieutenant Harold C. Montague, serving with the Turks, saw the mutilated • bodies of a hundred women rind children who had been massacred oy the Italians-in revenge for heavy losses in battle. ANOTHER APPEAL TO THE POWERS. (Received 6, 9 a.m.) Constantinople, November o. Iho Italian squadron of six units has been sighted off Chios. 'lho Chamber unanimously determined to despatch a protest to the Powers against the atrocities in Tripoli.
Rome, November 5. It is somi-officially announced that General Frugqiii, with another army corps, is proceeding to Tripoli. The Government is determined to carry the war to a finish with the utmost energy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 70, 6 November 1911, Page 5
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