New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
Bloody Treachery Of Non,
combatants Drove Trooper,
to "See Red" and Dis.
obey Rules of War.

treated them as his betes noires and "A
this day holds them In holy horror Thu
| japanese, II may be remembered. dur,ns
| the war i'm Manchuria entertained them
most Hospitality, either at Toxic or q,
points hundreds of miles from the field ~.
operations, which they were never per.
mitted to approach until after the
| trouble was over.
| So it has been in almost every cams
paign. That the objection 10 correspond.
ents lies In. any desire for secrecy II
nonsense, since no objection Is offered
to the presence OF the military attaches
| Of friendly powers right at the very
front. It lies in the difficulty Of inducing
| the newspaper men to submit TO thosa
laws of military discipline which are in,
dispensable to the success OF any came
paign. to their fondness for criticism
| and to the expression Of their firm con>
viction that they could handle matters In
an infinitely superior fashion 10 that Of
the officers In charge OF the operations.
J Indeed, the only war correspondents who
/ are tolerated are retired military officers
or such seasoned veterans as Bennett
/ Burleigh
| II must be borne in mind that all tbs
charges against the Italians come from
war correspondents who have been either
deported from Tripoli by order OF Gen..
! eral Canevs or who have found his IDEAS
| of discipline irksome or else who did not
relish the risk of the cholera, which Is
now raging in the city They come
| from men who have little or no knowl-
edge Of actual warfare, especially OF war;
fare with savage races, and all OF them
come from scribes who for one reason
or another have left Tripoli
/ have described the Turkish regulars
above as entitled TO the benefits Of the
rules Of war among civilized nations, as
forming part and parcel OF the army Of
European, If Moslem, power. On the
other hand, there will be many with
knowledge Of the near Orient, especially
those who have witnessed the barbar-
tiles perpetrated by Turkish regulars In
Macedonia and in the other Christian
provinces OF the Sultan's empire, who
will be disposed TO question this view.
first and foremost among them being
undoubtedly Nine Bakhmetief, the
new Russian Ambassadors at Washing
ton. daughter Of the late General Ed
ward FITZGERALD Beae Of the United
States army. She spent memorable
winter. when her husband was Russian
envoy at Sofia, on the Bulgarian frontier
in relieving the sufferings Of the victims
iof the appalling cruelties inflicted by
Turkish regulars upon the Christian
popuIation oe Macedonia and who had
sought refuge on Bulgarian soil.
/ In conclusion IL may be regarded as
a matter for congratulation that the
statesmen at the head OF the United
States government, in particular Presi-
dent Taft and his Secretary OF state.
Philander Knox. are too sagacious ana
level headed to lend any ear 10 the APP
peals for interference against italian
cruelty which the Sublime Porte has
seen fl to address 10 the American gov
eminent alone among the foreign pow
ers or to allow themselves to be infiu-
enced in any way by the clamor Of some
newspapers to intervene in Tripoli In
the alleged interests of humanity. NO
foreign power dreamed Of offering any
protest at Washington on behalf Of the
Filipinos when the American army was
engaged in crushing the native rebellion
there. and President Taft and his consti-
tutional advisers at Washington know
better than any one else that one OF the
fundamental principles incumbent upon
a great power Is that Of minding us
own business EA-AlIAChH'