The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-26
MASSACRE STORY
TOLO BY WITNESS
McCullagh Relates How cripples
and Blind Beggars Are
Shot Down.
Especial Cable to Tho Times-pispatch.l

London. November a5.-Another eye
witness story of the mas sacrc of Arabs
has reached London. II Is from Fran
els McCullagh. tho special representa-
tive of the Westminster Gazette, who.
to evade the censor. left Tripoli for
Malta. whence he telegraphed his story.
He relates in the Westminster Gazette {:
About 400 women and children have
been shot. and 1000 men. whereof not
100 were guilty. Cripplcs and blind
beSSars have been deliberately shot;
sick people. whose houses were burned,
were lett on the ground and refused
even n drop of water. / personally.
witnessed scenes of horror and pho
tographed them. There has been not
the taintest protense OF justice. The
soidicrs armed vas Wt SVerrnn by crazy
wore shouting every Arab man and
woman they met. The officers were
worse than tho men. and the army is
and found the soldiers raralyzed With
fear. Very many of the soldiers are
now heartily sick of the war, Tho
nation powerfully. UP TO a fcw days
rived, the italian line was in great
in which case fhsrc would have been
a mad .Sauve qui peut'--a Wild rusn
FOR hoats-and every European In
fripoli would have run the danger of
consuls still that they are desiring the
Italian government to provide trans
ports "hcrcon the Europeans may take
refuge.
~ small brave band of Arabs who
broke the Italian line ut Bumeliana,
was surrounded In house. and fought
for twelve hours till their ammuni-
ton became exhausted They were all
ccssfully proclaimed,
The Italians are practically be-
sleged. rhoy have retreated on the
east. so that the Arab sharpshooters
with bullets. The citadel wherein Gen
oral Caneva lives was hit by a bullet
to-day, and the German and American
e sons, have been repeatedly hit.
suls have abandoned the consulates
and taken refuge in the town. and
everybody in the outskirts has done
the same,
The Turks actually shcllcd the
town. and large crowds In the cafes
on the se8front and the streets watched
the Turkish shells ursting inside tho
Italian lines on the scashore two miles
OF. Four shells burst in the city.
The Italians contemplate a last
are thus worse off than month ago.
being gradually showed into the sea
territory. which is shrinking daily,
Strictly speaking. we are a besicsed
city OF very limited extent.
"Meanwhile cholera is raging among
the troops and tho people, and the dis
ease has attacked Arabs for the first
time. Whole streets are closed to traf-
lc by the troops on account of the
cholera.
"rhe soldiers refuse to bury the muir
dered Arabs. who litter the oasis.
There is n terrible stencil. Tho Arabs
also refuse. save at bayoHet's point,
and. consequently; contag:on is spread
ing fast.
''The Italian hattie losses are l,SoO
800 dead. Five hundred wounded
left on the hospital ship few days
ago.
"Gencrsl caneva lives IN the, citadel.
fortified and surrounded with sand
hays. bomb-proot shelters. with sol
diers on his Roof and in the cellar,
Under such absentee leadership amy
army would be degenerate. General
Caneva is never seen at the front or
outside his bomb-proof shelter