ITALY AND TRIPOLI.
( Received Sept. 28, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. All departments of the Stock Exchange have recovered on receiving a report that Turkey will ultimately lease Tripoli to Italy. The report is not confirmed, but hopeful views of some amicable settlement being reached are expressed. In Berlin and some other capitals holders of Turkish bonds paid fortyfive guineas in London to insure
against an Italo-Turkish war.
(Received Sept. 28, 9.55 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 27. Cabinet has decided to reinforce the troops dn European Turkey..
(Received Sept. 28, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. Private advices from Tripoli state that on the receipt of the news that the Italians contemplated occupation, all business places were closed. The Arabs gathered in the mosques, and decided to resist the landing to the last, and, if compelled to yield, then to seek British protection. Advices have been received frowi Malta that Italian warships, with an expeditionary, .force, are lying twenty miles off Tripoli.
. The Italian residents fear a massacre if the landing is attempted. PARIS. September 27.
- Rifaat Pasha expresses'surprise at the 4 situation, and declares that there is no Tripolitari question. Landing in Tripoli was in no way different from landing in Smyrna or Salonica.
Tripoli is not'a colony, but is a vital part of the Empire, and Turkey would have to defend its very existence as a sovereign State.
■Dr. Tittoni, Italian Ambassador here, interviewed, said that witfhout questiojiing- Rifaat's good faith, he questioned the good faith of Tripolitan officials, whose attitude never agreed with the good words of the Government in Coros't&ntinople. LONDON, September 27.
There are three Imrtlred Italian subjects and eight hundred under protection by Italy dn Tripoli. Britain has four thousand subjects there, including tnree thousand Maltese.
The Anglo-Maltese colony had implored the Government for help to enable them to leave the place, as the Italian steamers are only carrying their countrymen. '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10436, 29 September 1911, Page 3
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