Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-30
WAR is DECLARED.

London, Sept. 29.-EVentS in the
Turkish-Ttalian dispute occurred to-
day with extraordinary rapidity and
q state of war now exists between the
two nations. and hostilities have be-
gun.
No sooner had the time limit fixed
in the ultimatum expired than, ignor-
ing Turkeys conciliatory request for
a period Of delay, Italy declared war.
TIE Turkish representatives in Italy
were handed their passports. The
Turkish commander at Tripoli was
asf,ed to surrender the town, but re-
fused and the Italian forces imme-
dlately occupied Tripoli and Ben
ghaZi.
Apparently the Turks offered no re-
sistance. but this is only an assump-
ton for Immediately on landing the
italians evidently seized the tele-
graph lines. From the hour of their
landing, no message of any kind has
been received from Tripoli and dis
patches sent to that place remain I'M
answered. 1t should he noted, how
ever. that a Constantlnople dispatch
announcing italian occupation. makes
no mention of resistance and mere
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line with Turkeys announced policy.
The Turkish cabinet resigned as
soon. as war was declared and n new
ministry was formed under Said
Pasha. The former able war minister.
Mahmound ShefEet Pasha. however. is
retained in the new cabinet.
Turkey continues her efforts to OBJ
tain Intervention by the powers. In
the meantime Italy is aggressive. Ital.
ian battleslips are reported TO have
appeared off Smyrna and Salniki. An
italian cruiser landed troops al
Prevesa after destroying a Turkish
torpedo boat destroyer, and the Ital-
ian feet has bloekaded the whole Tri-
politan coast.
There are uneonfrmed reports that
Turkey intends to send an ultimatum
to Greece to abandon her claims on
Crete and is massing troops on the
Thessalan frontier.
| The greatest activity ensued in all
the European chancelleries on receipts
of the announcement that was had
been declared, and notification of a
blockade. 1t is expected that the va
rious governments will issue the GUS
tomary neutrality notices and will de-
vote their diplomatic efforts as far as
possible to localizing hostilities to the
combatant powers, and especially to
avoiding complications in the Balkans.
A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle
from Constantinople says that four
transports laden with ammunition
win start for Tripoli tomorrow The
Italian residents in Constantinople
have received orders to close their
schools and shops and not to congre.
gate anywhere in numbers Many Of
them are leaving the city The BancC
Di Roma and the Italian postofflce ar,
strongly guarded.
| A massacre Of Italians In Adana
Asia Minor, is feared. Italy has con-
| siderable interests and a large col
that Turkish troops have occupied
Thessaly to keep the Greeks in check
and to prevent them from attempting
to capture Crete The Russian feet
in the Black sea is ready for any
emergency. 1t is now anchored before
Trebizond.
+ The Sultan and the heir apparent
sat in council with the ministers all
night when it was finally decided that
Turkey should yield 10 force and not
oppose the Italian landing at Tripoli,
| but hold influential Italians as host
ages.
The Chronicles Milan correspond
emit who sends his dispatches via the
Swiss frontier, says:
Despite the vast preparation for
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vigorously engaged in for the past
week. the publication of the text OF
the ultimatum to Turkey has produc-
ed a veritable sense of stupification
among the people. Except in Sicily
there is nothing approaching enthus-
iasm over this colonial adventure.
Anxious fears are expressed lest
the brutal crudity of the ultimatum
favor the impression abroad that the
note was drafted under the inspira-
ton of the worst ethics of Sicilian
brigandage rather than by the cab
met of Christian power.
AS during the recent ravages OF
the cholera the ministry has resort
ed to its favorite device-The whole
sale stoppage of telegraph and tele-
phone messages, even forbidding the
sending of messages by italian cor
respondents arriving at Tripoli who
found everything calm there and
nothing in the attitude of the native
TO justify a panic or exodus"
4 dispatch to the Times from Con-
stantinople says that according to the
latest reports received by the admit
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