The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-25

tinues. The Government has sent ves-
sells to- repatriatc them
Shippers refuse to accept goods or
passengers destined for the Black Sea
or the Lcvant Vessels en- route have
been recalled.
Premier Giolitti returned - Rome this
morning from n conference with the King
at Piedmont Since returning he has
conferred with the Minister of War, the
Minister of Marine and tho Foreign Min
lister, arranging the final details Of the
expedition to Trpoli.
Two drgible balloons and four aero
planes with aerostatic attachments have
been ordered sent with the expedition.
The Red Cross is 10 send six field hos
pitals.
The Marquis Garonno. the new Am
bassador to Constantinople. will leave on
October for his post. He hopes TO
arrange "A diplomatic settlement with
Turkey on basis Of monetary indemni-
ties.
A meeting Of socialists at Milan to-day
protested against the expedition and in
favor of a general strike
The official MHHdry Gazette publishes
an order calling to the colors part Of
the 1905 contingent Of the reserve,
The Tr,bund's Tripoli dispatches say
that there is uneasiness in the Italian
colony and that IL is feared that the ex-
pected arrival of Turkish steamers with
arms and ammunition will provoke among
the natives an ungovernablc explosion
Of fanaticism against the Italians. result =
ing in massacre. Italians have appealed
to the Government to take vigorous
measures to protect them.
SYRACUSE, Sept "a The squadrons
from Naples and Spezia Joined to-day and
will start for Tripoli on Monday
LONDON. Sept % At the very moment
that the Moroccan dispute seems assured
Of settlement fresh war cloud appears
on the horizon. II is a little further east.
The peaceful settlement of the Moroccan
Question was necessary preliminary
to the new peril Italy's position in the
Triple Alliance compelling her 10 await
a favorable settlement of the Franco
German negotiations.
Everything indicates that Italy means
peaceably or forcihly to take the long
coveted territory which is Turkeys last
possession in Africa. some half million
square miles of land populated by ,oOO, ,OOC
Arabs. Bedouins. Moors and Berbers.
The Italian colony with that OF the
Maltese amounts to some 5000.
Italy says she has the favorable answer
of all the Powers interested in the Medi-
terranean with regard to the attitude
she has taken.
1t might I've assumed that this would
weigh with Turkey To favor pacific
settlement based upon indemnity; hut
the Turks have never yielded territory
without resistance and il would do damage
TO the prestige of the Young Turks 10
do so now 1t would be most damaging
The position of their regime is already
weakened and il would be further shaken
by the final disappearance of Turkey
from Africa, where there are so many
fervent Mosems.
The excitement ~ Constantinople i,
evidently great. The feeling here ma,
be judged from the fact that the Turkish
Ambassador t. Rome. Hussein Kiazim
Bey. has been in Constantnople -four
months and hasrefused To- return to shar,
in the responsibility for the loss of Tripoli
Similarly the Governor-General of Tripod
has declined To remain At his post and il
now in Consts nj inople
ne II UlSsdUS'l''l, Hs Il NlaIln, VIII
the Porte's inaction. With tho loss %
Ibrahim Pasha, the commander Of tn
troops at Tripoi, there is now neither
civil nor military governor there.
The Turkish troops at Tripoi are vari-
ously computed AT from l2,ooo to 10000
1t is believed that they are badly equipped
The Turkish feet consists of a couple oi
obsolete warships which were recent,
purchased from Germany and ten de
stroyers.
Turkey would be unable to protect he
transpo rts with reenforcements for he
forces in Trpoli Thus her European
army necessarily would be left intac
and would remain an important factor
in the Balkan situation. Ibis Ierhap
minimizes the danger Of that European
conf1agration of which the Turkish
Charge d'Affaires at Paris speaks in al
interview.
MALTA. Sept. 2i.-Every ship arriving
from Trpoli has many Italians on boarc
fleeing in fear of a rising against them.
The British cruiser Meiea h as left her
for TrpOl to watch the Italian operation
and protect British subjects and interests