The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-17

ments have been thrown up around
BuNielit na Springs. whichemakes it i'm
possible for the Turks to cut or poison the
water supply. and thet the dsembarka-
ton of the land forces has been COM
pleted.
The report that Gen. Geneva has a force
sufficient to cope with the situation ia
given out. Nevertheless the reserves
have been ordered to join the colors on
October is.
4 despatch to the Tribnnd from Tripoli
says three native policemen who wer.
arrested by the Turks near Hanzur heve
been shot as traitors, Earthworks have
strongly intrcnchcd
despatch from Tripoli TO the Italia
says the Turks are starving and in addi-
lion are suffering from fever. Their
surrender is imminent. Gen. Caneva
has ordered the expulsion of all Turks
found in the place. Scntrios yesterday
shot two Turks who were attempting
10 cross the outposts.
The Italians celebrated Te Deum yea
terday in thanksgiving for their success
The booty captured by the Italian troops
in TripolI includes twenty modern krupp
guns. sixty mortars. thirty-six quick
firing guns and $50 other guns of various
kinds: 1000 rifles 10000 revolvers. sixty
tons Of explosives and 100 camels.
Besides the military censorship enforced
on all news from Tripoli the cable between
that place and Malta is being used almost
exclusively for army messages. Press
dispatches cannot secure transmissi on
over the cable and are mailed to Malta or
Syracuse. The Home Office said to-day
that only official statements as TO what is
going on are genuine and that alleged
press dispatches purporting to give
State news are really sent by mail,
Italian correspondents in Tripoli com
plain Of the rigor Of the Gems s,rship. They
say they are powerless To telegraph their
dispatches The correspondents hint that
the censorship is justified by special rea-
sons
LONDON. Oct. Word comes that
more bloodshed wes witnessed at 1iipoli
last Friday. The correspondent OF the
Telegraph says that a native woman was
challenged by sentry fol entering a sec
tion Of the city which was forbidden. She
ran away and Immediately the sentry
Ifeu, hiiuuR oie person ttIlu W. liiuihS
four others. The same correspondent
says it is undoubtedly true that sev-
eral men we're killed on both sides in a
renewal Of the sairmishing between the
Italians and Turks near the Bou-Meliana
Wells
Other dispatches from Tripoli describe
the capture by the Italians of a Turkish
army officer armed with Mauscr pistol
who was trying TO leave the city disguised
as an Arab.
The Italian newspap pers continu eto print
graphic descriptions Of utpost skirmishes.
One correspondent thus sums il up: The
Turks have made three feeble attacks on
the Italian outposts since the occupation
Of Tripoli. and in one OF these they left
two dead behind. These were recognized
as Redifs. recruited from among the
Arabs in Tripoli They had had three
months military training. All the iso-
lated attacks were made by irregulars.-
MILAN. Oct. l8. tBy courier to the from
tier. Public interest in the war is la aging
People were much more Interested yester-
day in the results of the races on the local
track when the purses aggregated less
than SIS 900.
BRUSSELS. Oct. l8.-The independence
Beige to-day prints an appeal from tho
Permanent International Peace Bureau
TO the Powers signatory to the Hague
arbitration conventions urging that a
collective "dtmarche" be made toward
the Italian Government expressing the
desire OF the various countries that hence
forward treaties should be religously re-
spected by Italy. The memorandum goes
on 10 say:
Instead Of failing grave,y in her en-
gagements in acting as she did Italy in a
legal and peaceful manner could have ob-
ta!ned the satisfaction to which she de-
olares she is entitled. She has broken the
engagements she undertook to keep when
she placed her signature at the foo, Of
the final convention Of the peace confer
ence'