, 1911-10-04
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.

London, Get. 3Id-As Italy and Turkey
respectively deny what the other afirms, war
news is hopelessly confused and contradic-
tory. Turkey claims that the feet report
ed to have been destroyed reached the OAR
danelles safely, and there is another report
that a naval engagement is now proceeding
in the Dardanelles. The Italians deny land
ing at P%revesa, which is contrary to their in
tention of localizing the war in Africa. The
Turks, it is stated, will not defend Tripoli,
reserving their strength for operations in
the interior, where the Italians will be at a
disadvantage, hence :he Italians are unable
to occupy pending the arrival of reinforce
ments, although there is no opposition at the
waters edge. An occasional shot is fred f r
the purpose of intimidation, and a strict
blockade is kept pending the arrival of thirty
five thousand troops modified at Naples
under General Caneya. Said Pasha is una
BILE to form a Ministry; the Sultan favours a
coalition Cabinet. On Sunday night the Cab
met prepared "a circular to Turkish represen-
tatiyes throughout the world reviewing the
situation and declaring that Turkey post
pones active war in the hope that the Pow
ers will intervene. Turkey has plenty of
men but a scarcity of fun Is, one million
pounds sterling being all that are available.
It is reported that Austria and Germany
have made unofficial representations of their
displeasure with Italy, intimating that ne
glect is likely to be followed by humiliation.
A Toulon telegram says a French squad
ron has been ordered to rendezvous at
Algiers Immediately after the Liberte fun
eral.
A Malta despatch says the British squa-
dron is ready. The steamer Castlegarth had
arrived with thirteen hundred refugees from
Tripoli, who state there had been no bonn
~bardmen up to their departure at eleven
pm. Saturday.
Mohammedans have held a mass Meeting
at Calcutta, and memorialized the Indian
Home Secretary, and the British Minister
for Foreign Affairs to check Italy's aggre
sion, intervening as the Worlds g cate {
Mohammedan Power, they also cabled to tie
Grand Vizier of Turkey that they would de-
fend the honour of Islam, and organized q
Red Crescent Society to cooperate with
other Indian Societies in observing the pro-
gress of the war.
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught and
Princess Patricia will sail for Canada By the
Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Ireland
on the eighth.
The Kidderminister Chamber of Com
MERGE has adopted a resolution that the
NoNetuIuonC SnOuHu appoint Il D6r OF
Commerce to reconsider the fiscal system
situation created by Cansda's rejection of
reciprocity,
At the unwilling of the statue of the late
Charles Stewart Parnell in Dublin Mr. John
Redmond declared that an Irish parliament
will assemble in fewer months than the
years necessary for erection of the monu-
ment. Ireland, he said, needs every Irish
man, therefore he pleaded for cancellation Of
the Ulsterites. There was not q single Bri-
fish flag displayed in Dublin, but there was
immense enthusiasm, fifty thousand assem-
bled by forty special trains.
The Irish lumber strikers have settled
their dispute with the masters, and affirm
that the assistance of the Irish Railway
strikers was not asked for and not desired.
Mr. Snowden, Labourite member for Black
burn, asserts that1the Intervention of the Bri-
fish strike managers was the most disastrous
action possible. The iasco, he says, alienates
public sympathy, and sit is absurd that the
railway employees should be the catspaws of
every trade dispute. The Secretary of the
Anti-Socialist Union says the Trades Unions
are cankered by Socialism and have forfeited
public confidence with their mistreatment of
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