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Show Tho Arabs Don't hike It. London, March 1. A dispatch from Tripoli Trip-oli announces that there has been serious rioting there growing out of the issuing of a lirman by the sultan, making the natives liable to conscription, from which they were hitherto exempt. Thousands of Arabs as-sembled as-sembled outside the walls of the city demanding de-manding the withdrawal of the firman. The Arabs had au encounter with the troops, several sev-eral being killed and many wounded. Europeans living in the vicinity havo taken refugu iu the city. Business is suspended. |