Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-01

|REGENERAT|NG THE NATION
Residents of TripoIi, Who Had Been
Badly Neglected BY Turks, Are Now
Being Given the Rights and sene-
fits Of Modern Civilizaton--Pres
ent Condition a Paradise to What
They Suffered Under the Moslems
(By United Press.)
New York, May 1-When Italy, on
September 70, began the occupation
Of Tfipoli, she justified this action in
Il note 10 the European powers, by de-
clarng it the only way in which mod
ern civilization could be carried to
the people Of Tripoli and the country
developed both morally and material
| ly Turkey, Italy declared, had fore
ed Tlipoli to lag far behind the sur.
rounding countries in progress to-
ward civilization.
On March 20, therefore, just six
months after Italy began the forcible
occupation of Tripol, Roy w. How
ard, general news manager of THE
UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS re.
quested of Premier Gioltti a state
that time towards redeeming its prom
| Use to civlize and develop Tripoli
The following statement, based Oh
information secured expressly for
The United Press by orders of Pre-
mer Gioltti was today authorized
! for publications
Copyrighted 1912 by the United Press
Associations.
Rome, May 1.-Previous TO the oc-
cupation of Tripoli by Italy, it may be
justly said that Turkey had done moth
! ing towards the development of the
country save the establishment of
methods, both excessive and violent,
! for the collection of taxes and duties.
Nothing had been done towards the
building of roads, the establishing of
water supply and distributor, the en-
forcing of public sanitation, or the
providing of public education. save
to accept what had generously been
done in this latter respect by the var
ious Christian missionaries.
With the Italian occupation of
Tripoli, there was Immediately es-
/ tablished general administration of
public service with the ultimate aim
of implanting in Tripoli all of the
branches of public service and public
development that exist in the mother
country of Italy itself Under this
general government was established
at once separate departments for
lhe administration of a system of
public records, of posts and tele-
Sraphs, Of public engineering. of Gus
IONS AID duties, OF health and SAM
tatioa, of civil justice, of public
port, - public safety, of municipal
government, of schools, of agricul-
ture, of industry and commerce, of
charitable Institutions, and of the ex-
cayation and preservation of the
monuments and remains of antiquity.
All of these branch departments of
administration are now fully estab-
,ishcd and much has been accom-
/ pJshed 10y each.
At the actual moment of Italian
ccaa1atioI. the greatest proHlem that
confronted the new government was
that of public health and sanitation,
both temporarily and permanently.
The country at all times subject to
infectious epidemics, was then being
swept by cholera which had begun in
1910 and continued into the fan of
1911. Nothing had been provided I'm.
der the Turkish regime with which to
combat this situation save single
isolation hospital, a municipal hospit-
al and municipal pharmacy, all in
state of deplorable sanitation them.
selves, and all practically worthless
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