Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1911-10-05
THE REPORT NOT VERIFIED
ACCORDING TO NAVAL REGISTER
SHIP MENTIONED is STILL
UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
SOLDIERS ARE LANDED TO-DAY
FOUND 'euNsIeHTs REMOVED
AND THAT TURKS HAD LEFT
THE PLACE.

Tripoli, Oct. 5.-No offer to sur
render had been made by the Turks
this morning. Some of the inhabi
tants of Tripoli displayed enthusiasm
when they saw the Italians landing
from the cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi
Advancing Turkish torpedo boats
were stranded and badly damaged.
Italians Effect Landing.
London, Oct. 5.-A dispatch from
Rome saps that the Syracuse cor
respondent of Rome paper tele-
graphs:
The Italians effected a landing
close to Tripoli under the protection
of their warships."
A dispatch to the Chronicle from
Constantinople today says that a
cable received there from a Turkish
source at Tripoli via Malta states
that the Italian battleship Conte Di
Cavour was blown up by Turkish
mine off Tripoli and that the crew
and troops aboard the vessel per-
ished.
The dispatch adds:
"a heavy cannonading was heard
last night near Samothrace, an island
belonging to Turkey, in the Aegean
sea, about 20 miles from the coast
of Thraco where flashes from the
Italian searchlights were seen. Vio-
lent cannonading was also heard off
the coast of Prevesa. The newly
formed national defense committee
today cabled King George of Eng
land asking him to intervene"
A news dispatch from Rome this
forenoon says that the delay in the
bombardment of Tripoli was due not
only to the Italian desire to avoid
bloodshed but also to the fact that
the harbors had been extensively
mined.
The Italian battleship conte Di Ca
your, described in a Turkish report
as having been blown up by a mine
off Tripoli, appears in the naval reg
lister as still in the course of coli
struction at Spezia. No vessel of
that name is in active service, so far
as shown by the records of the Ital-
ian navy.
italians Protest.
Port Said, Egypt, Oct. 5.-The
Italian consul today protested to the
governor of the Suez canal against
the continued presence in the har-
Dor of the Turkish transport Kaiser,
which has been here since Septem-
Der 30. The consul contends that
this constitutes a breach of the neu-
ltrality of the canal.
Rome Gets the News.
Rome, Oct. 5.-A telegram from
Tripoli under today's date says:
"The bombardment was continued
yesterday morning. The fire was di-
AOStCu d5dluot tuC OuLcI uSI0uS6S,
the central defenses being spared so
as not to destroy the town. The SUI.
tania and Hamidiah batteries were
dismantled.
"The cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi
entered the harbor and Italian off,
GERS visited the Hamidiah batlerq.
They found that the Turks had re-
moved the sights from the guns and
evacuated. Three dead bodies were
found in the battery.
"Up to the time this message is
sent on offer of capitulation has
been made"
Advices received here state that
the most serious damage and loss Of
life during the bombardment of
Tripoli occurred in the vicinity Of
the French fort which dominates
the northwest side of the city, and
at the docks. The new Spanish fort
near the hospital scarcely resisted
and tumbled at the first shells, some
casualties resulting. The defenders