The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05

fetnl BIT, the new and energetic
Vail, whose appearance on the scene
has changed the whole face Of the
war. This little Arab vanguard is
armed with antiquated rifles but
fights 80 desperately that, despite
battle ships and aeroplanes, despite
seven field batteries. nine mountain
batteries, sixteen machine guns and
an inexhaustible supply of the best
rifles and ammunition, despite splen-
did sea and land searchlights sweep
ing the shore and desert, deep trench
ed wherein are hidden wire entagle-
ments, loop-holed walls behind which
crouch over 10000 men, where 10000
are perpetualy in the trenches-de-
spite all these advantages. the Italians
are IN the last stage of exhaustion
and fright
City 10 Besleeed.
They have retreated On the east so
that the Arab sharp shooters in the
date fields now reach the town with
their bullets. The citadel, wherein
General Caneva lives, was hit by
bullet today The German and
American consulates have repeated
ly been hit and the German and Amer
leans have abandoned the consu1ates
and taken refuge In the town Every
body in the outskirts has done the
same
On October 81 the Turks actually
shelled the town. Large crowds III
the cafes and on the sea front street
watched the Turkish shells bursting
inside the Italian lines on the shore
two miles off. Shells repeatedly
burst in the English cemetery. -Four
shells burst in the city, two OF them
near the American consulate.
The Italians have informed the
/ consuls of their Intentions to demol-
ish, If necessary, all houses in the
oasis on the outskirts of the city,
afterward paying an indemnity. This
order NAV necessitate the demolition
of the German and American consul
| lates The italians contemplate
last stand inside the city The In
vaders are thus worse off than
month ago, having been gradually
4 showed into the sea.
/ The territory they hold is shrink
daily. One COULD go around 1t all
in little ride before breakfast. strict
ly speaking. They are In be-
seiged city. The Italians are cutting
all of the trees in the oasis 80 as
not to afford shelter to the enemy.
Cholera Stalking About
Loud explosions every day indicate
the blowing up of houses outside the
walls, wherein the enemy might take
cover. Meanwhile cholera is raging
among the troops and the people.
The disease has attacked the Arabs
for the first time. Twenty-seven so-
diers died OF the cholera yesterday.
Hundreds are sick. Thirty-three civ.
ilians are dead The soldiers refuse to
bury the murdered Arabs. who litter
the oasis. Owing to the stencil the
Arabs also refuse, save at the bay.
onet's point, consequently the conta.
gion is spreading fast.
The Italian battle losses of 1,500 in
clude 800 dead Five hundred left
on hospital ship few days ago.
Attempts have been made to conceal
these figures and to lie generally
about the position at Tripoli. Caneva
officially announced forty Arabs exc
cuted one day when l saw fifty men
I and children executed in one batch
alone and executions on far large
scale were going on all around.
caneva, the Vulture.
The principal culprit is Caneva
! whose bad military disposition cause
panic and easily leads to massacres.
Caneva lives in d citadel where he is
fortified and surrounded with sand
bags and bomb proofs, with soldiers on
the roof, and soldiers in the cellar. The
general of division does the same.
Under such absentee leadership, any
army would degenerate. Caneva is
never seen at the front or outside
the bombproofs. Whenever the Arab
attacks begin, Caneva appears to
hide somewhere in the citadel cellars
t safeguarding his person in an elab
r crate way, while close by his steam