THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 22 November 1911, Page 6

THE WAR.

WAR CORRESPONDENT’S STORY. I TALE OF DREADFUL SLAUGHTER. - AN OFFICER’S DENIAL. (Received 22, 8.0 a.in.) London, November 21. Several Italians interrupted McCnllagh, the war correspondent, lecture op., atrocities,. Mr. McCullagh staffed- that' ’ Ttalihn' ‘ reinforcehients when passing a factory behind which was a village inhabited exclusively by mill workers, had two shots fired at them. A soldier was reported to have been wounded. He could never find this soldier, but, owing to those two snots, four thousand persons were killed, and there was no other cause for the slaughter. He saw bed-ridden women and little boys shot: it was murder, not "war. Arabs were killed on tlie flimsiest protects; murdered because they had knives or razors, or that empty cartridges were found in their dwellings. Lieutenant Ivaces, an Italian officer here, replied that three hundred and twenty-four soldiers were treacherously killed, and those killed were murderers, and .were treated as .such. The meeting .resolved to urge, the Government to -enquire into the alleged violation of the rules of war, and to make representations to Italy.