Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-06
.TURC0-ITAL|AN WAR
CAUSES PROTEST.
Movement to be lnaugurated to Urge
Upon Ilaly the Propiety OF a
More Merciful PlOicy.
HORRIBLE SCENES IN TRIPOL1.
Many ItalIans Said te Have Been hiiied
italy's Danger Growing Greater
Daily-Italy Would Like. to WIthdra"
From Tripoli Honorahiy.

i onf1on, Nov. G.-The European
press outside Italy, accepts with prac'
5tical nnanimity today the accounts
given by a newspaper correspondent
from Tripoli of the atrocities the1
saw the Italians are perpetratine
there.
Vigorous demands are being made
for interference by the combined
powers and representations to King
Victor are belly. from a majority o.
at least the old-world governments
that a more merciful policy must be
adopted.
The English cabinet seems DIS
nosed to act with considerable pre-
caution, but Germany and austria, II
narticular. which have looked with
disfayor from the first upon the
Tripolitan grab, are understood to DC
strongly inclined to take diplomatic
hand in the situation at once. Should
they do so England will have no op'
tion but to join them.
Nice. Nov. 6.-How overjoyed the
Italian government would be IL II
could find a way of withdrawing from
the Tripolitan campaign, is made
clear by information received mere
from Rome today.
Taking into account Turkeys ma
val weakness and convinced that the
Tripolitan coast garrisons were TOO
feeble to put up more than the mer-
est pretense of resistance, the Glolitti
ministry undertook the seizure OF the
nrovince. thinking it would be an easy
affair and that, in the popular enthus-
it would create, the anti-mlli-
..r J and anti-monarchist party's
a IS would be drowned.
cad OF winning 1Ssf#haimins-
scarcely the loss of man, as
!. nan expected, the government IS
ware, though the masses only
s,snect. that Italy has met with some
thing very like serious disaster.
The roll of Italians killed is al
ready long. Gen. Caneva's army IN
Tripoli is; precariously situated. Il
has lost ground since it landed. Ine
Turks and Arabs are pressing it hard.
cholera is decimating it's ranks. The
reinforcements it is necessary TO keep
sending from home are increasing the
popular conviction that something has
gone frightfully wrong. Now comes
the threat of Intervention on the part
of the Powers, on the ground that
the Italian campaign is being SO par
barously waged that the world cannot
look inactively on
With every days continuation OF
the struggle the danger becomes
greater that Italy will learn into what
a desperate venture the government
has plunged it. The facts have only
been suppressed thus far by such
censorship as modern times have neV-
er known. They are sure to become
public property before long. When
that happens. not only the cabinet
but the throne may be in danger. on
the other hand, to abandon the fight
now would be to confess defeat and
precipithe domestic trouble Whlcn
the government does not dare face.
Illustrative Of the cabinets anxiety
there is what seems the well founded
report that Gen. Fruzoni has been
chosen to succeed Gen. Caneva in the
Tripolitan command. 1t is certain
that a fresh force of between $1,000
and $1,000 is being secretly collected
to be dispatched from Naples to re-
inforce the army in occupation OF
Tripoli.
What is happening in Tripoli at the
moment is unknown. At last &C
counts a fierce artillery battle was
raging between the Italians inside the
town and the Turkish and Arab fore
es who surround it on every side.