The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-30
EUROPE FACING
 CRISIS; RESULT
 0FITALY'S BLOW
Italian Troops Landing in Trpo Under Protection of the Fleet and Another Turkish Warship Destroyed
 at Prevesa, Which Is Also Stormed
Principal Powers Are Today Contriving to End the
 Present Fight But Both Italy and Turkey Not E Inclined to Yield

nor of the Ottoman empires As1atlc possessions. Bulgaria is threatening the province of Macedonia. Monte negro is eyeing northern Albania an- xiously.
 Patriotic Turks are convinced that the partition of their entire country is imminent and, as the committee of union and progress expressed it. in a proclapation issued, today .The Ot- toman nation prefers death to dishon- or" and if it must perish, proposes to go down in a war in which all Flu rope is involved.
 Now that European diplomats see this, the most furious efforts are be- ing made to settle the Turko- Italian trouble before it goes father. London, burg are in constant communication and there is high authority for the statement that an agreement on some plan to keep the lid on in the Bal kans'' is likely to be reached almost at any moment.
 In the meantime, Italy is taking the aggressive with the utmost energy. shots between the Italian ships off Tripoli and the Turkish batteries ashore, the Italians resumed, today, their landing begun last night. The troops are not going ashore at the city of Tripoli. where they might be
 
 of the town, whence they have already started to march on the anticipated Qualifications.
 Am engagement is also momentarily expected between the Italian fleet sent to intercept the Turkish squad ron at Constantinople. The Turks are hopelessly outclassed but Commander Bucknam is considered an extremely able officer.
 War Minister Chefxet Pasha is has, tening troops to all threatened coast points and,s though he cannot raise the blockade, will certainly put a speedy end to landings on Turkish soil
 As counter-move to the Italian att tack, Turkish troops are already occu- pying the Greek province of Thessaly and slxirmishing has already occurred between the Turks and Greeks. Italy. in the meantime, is having grave trou- hle with anti-militarists at home. Not much is known as to details, owing ta the airtight censorship. but it Is cer- tain that there has been rioting at many points and that numbers of lives have been lost in the fights between the anti-militarists and the troops.
 The general strike against the war was, indeed crushed. but the people, who generally strongly object to fight ing for a small capitalstic group which will profit by the seizure of Tripoli, are taking the aggressive in- dividually against the government in enormous numbers. The seriousness of the situation may be judged from the fact that the cabinet has had to declare martial law throughout Italy.
 remarkable feature of the situa- ton is the massing of Italian troops along the Austrian frontier. At any other time such move fould be in- terpreted everywhere as preliminary to an attempt at the recovery of Aus tria's Italian provinces, for which the Rome government has been getting ready for years. It hardly seems pos sible that the effort should be made just at the moment when Italy is at war with another power but diplomats are, nevertheless, greatly puzzled and somewhat uneasy. To complicate speculation still further, Austria-Hun- gary alone among European nations, is inclined to sympathize with Italy in the Tripo1itan matter.