Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-10-26
An Act CT Piracy.

"On the 9TH of .Tune. 1869 the Turk
ish warship Nu,ahad. forty kilon,e-rrs
from the coast of Turkey, took pos ses.
sion by force Of 2,34O talleri on boaid
the Italian bark Selma. pirate act
without any reason whatever.
Recently some notorety was given
to the incident Of the steamship &c
nova. seized by Turkish warship
tOwed to Hodeida and subjected to an
unjust proceeding of attempted appro
priation by force Of arms. The Italian
government, moved by a spirit of con.
citation, agreed to make an invcstiga.
ton into the matter in order to settle
amicably the incident. The results of
said investigation We're such as to
shame any government in what con-
Germs the conduct Of the local func.
tiOnaries.
''But that was not enough. While
the incident Of the Geneva was being
settled on Dec. 5. 1910, the comman
dant Of n Turkish warship entered b.
force of arms on board the bark So
lima and forced the captain to turn
over the mail Of the merchants Of
Massaua.
"Vexations Of other nature Of 10 less
importance were made against other
banks from the colony of Eritrea be-
longing to Ali Kozem and Kalid Ha-
med While the Turkish authorities
were perpetrating other veXations of
minor Importance against other YES
sells. always willing to damage the
commerce of the Italian colony of Fri
trea. on Aug q. 1911, in the hope of
impunity, they took vengeance on the
cargOes from Eritrea on board the YES
sci Faith Esaon Kath Els Salem, beat
ing the captain, throwing him into the
sea and abandoning The damaged YES
sci after having taken all the mer-
chandise on board. the provisions of
the crew included
Worse In Tripolitania.
"The banks and the merchants of Fri
trea, terrified by the continuous dep
relations by the Turkish authorities
on the coast of Arabia. have therefore
relinquished in great part their bust
ness there. with great damage to the
commerce of our colony. The hOstili-
ties of the Ottoman authorities, at
times openly and violently waged and
at times deceitfully and spitcfully, as
sumo still greater proportions in Tripo-
litania
1.-THE wallis rapidly succeed each
other in government Of the vilayet, but
the policy is always the same, until in
the year 1910 the new vail. 1brahiln
Pasha. orenly declared in the council
of administration that he would sys-
tematically oppose any Italian initia-
tive giving clearly to understand
that such were the instructions of his
government. Thus all the PROPOSE
tons, all the requests for concessions
of enterprises made by Italians, such
rs adequate radiotelegraphic plants,
roads. etc. are invariably denied.
1.-THE natives. terrified, do not dare
to avail themselves of these institu-
tons and establishments, being afraid
of traitorous vengeance. In the midst
of such handicaps and difficulties
great crimes occur, such as the mul'-
der of Father Giustino at Derna and
the murder of Gastone Terreni, which
was committed short time afterward
between Tripoli and HONS.
"F0r this barbarous crime no salts
faction whatever has ever been OBJ
tanned not even proceeding. either
civil or criminal
"The warm and almost universal
sympathy with which Italy had greet
ed the assumption to power of the
Young Turks. the desire to give time