The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-07
Drive Arabs From Their Shelter Be
meath the Date Trees and
Shoot Them Down
Like Rabbits.
GoTTBERG WITNESSED 1T
German War Correspondent Who
Gave up His Papers and Refused
to Stay on the
Job.

BERLIN. Nov. 7.--Herr Gottburg,
the Lokal Anzeigers correspondent
with the Italian army in Tripoli, who
in company with several other cor
respondents, returned his papers and
| left Tripoli rather than remain as a
helpless witness of the brutalities
he says the Italians are perpetrating
there, telegraphed from Malta today
considerably amplifying the horrible
story previously told OF the slaughter
alleged to be in progress in the be-
leagured city.
Following the Italian order to cleat
the oasis of its native population,
Gottburg says that the soldiers re-
morselessly chased men, women and
children, the sick, crippled and blind
into the open and there shot them
like rabbits. No officer higher than
a lieutenant, the correspondent as
serts, was present during the butchery,
Gen. Caneva himself never even being
seen while the shooting was In prog
ress. There was not seinblance OF
a court martial, Gottburg adds, nor
4 did the private soldiers awsit orders
from their officers before shooting
i down the wretched Arabs.
He refers to the specific instances
J. OF a wounded old woman and sick
girl and boy who were permitted by
the Italian physician to die of hunger
!. ard thirst in plain sight of hundreds
!. OF passing soldiers and officers. Gott-
, burg says he knows personally that at
least two persons, an Englfshman
and a German, called the PHYSICIANS
attention to the three sufferers and
begged that something be done for
!, them, but that the physician refused
the slightest aid.
U. s. Cruiser Sent.
4 MALTA, Nov. IA wireless mes
j, sage received by its commander, Ben
ton C. Becker, orders the American
d cruiser Chester to proceed to Tripoli
o forthwith
Advices from Tripoli state that the
ID sanitary situation there is growing
le worse. The bodies of fifty Arabs who
d died from cholera or hunger, were
found in the streets. The palm
al groves are HllSu Will wi poSo 'HN
II fifty cases of cholera are reported IN
e the italian army
h.
ia ExplahatIon Is Doubted.
WASHINGTON, Nov.7-The mission
90 of the scout cruiser Chester, which
4. sailed for Tripoli, was declared a
n. the state department to be for thu
u purpose of looking into the "choiers
situation there,' but from sources 9th
% er than the state department it wal
- said the vessel was proceeding ther'
:. for the "protection OF foreign inter
,e ests"
:, AS the cholera situation at Malt;
q, several days ago was reported to D.
10 serious, no reason for the sailing o
~ the vessel to another cholera infeste'
ts port could be set forth other than
has an important mission, such a
the 'protection of foreign interests
or that it is for the purpose OF ge'
ting first hand information on the
At legged Italian barbarities in Tripoli.
In the absence of President Tai
and Secretary Knox, say some, tn
&c state department probably will tax
no action upon the request of the o
toman government that the Unite
States intervene to protect the Turk
and Arabs in Tripoli from the allege
~ brutality of the italian soldiers.
\, There were indications today the
su tho Turkish note had embarrassed tn
state department