Show BOMBARD TURKISH PORT OF 01 I BEl BEIRUT RUl SIXTY ARE t I KILLED MANY WOUNDED Italian W Warships SinK Gun Gun- Gunboats boats of TurKey in Barbor Harbor Harbor Har- Har bor of Syria BEIRUT PEOPLE FLEE FLEETO It TO LEBANON HILLS College ColIee and Other American Ameri Amen can Institutions Are Not Injured red BEIRUT Syria Feb 21 A 2 A I of Italian warships today bombarded this city killed sixty inhabitants and Rud wounded many others They also sank several small Turkish h gunboats an an- lor d in the port 1 Appearing suddenly udden y off the port t the tle commanders of ot the Italian gunboat VolI Vol I and ana armored cruiser c I Garibaldi sent sont to fa the authorities a aper peT per peremptory demand for the surrender ot bC the Turkish gunboats Before the provincial governor could deliver his reply or ask asic for time to to ne ne negotiate gotta te the cruisers open opened d fir fire In ln Ina a short bort time h nb h were a a ami 1111 i iu in Ii a i ug i tiou The rho custom house houe was Wll greatly Hana aD and other bu buildings l also huf V 1 tl ll 4 r Mans Mans- persons vho came uhe within th 1 the zone of the fire r re t ed t People FIe r In J A panic- panic set tu iu ami tb the thc pe people p toward iowan th the Lebanon hUb hills f i T The o i nt college e r anti ami president Emeritus is IS the tho Rev He Dr D Daniel Bliss is safe aCc i of the tho American institutIons Institution here bere any m min in injury from tho C ex cx explosion of or the shells The professors i etu student and all safe Iafe t employees are arc The rhe reported ut of f n Beirut hy by the Italians is is the fi first firt t sigu ju of ot lint Hal inn ian naval 31 activity ity iu in the Mediterranean l for a a Ion lone period an and appears to bo ho part of the new UC plan of campaign recently rc re announced The city has onh a n small Turkish b carrison of jOO OO infantry O l apri detachments of artillery and oa- oa 1 It is not strongly tron ly foi fortified In Beirut tb there re i is a n large larce foreign population most ot of ot whom are arc arc Christians Chris Chris- Hans and auti there are thirty eight ht churches of f various Christian tion Americans America s Long Iong Active There The me American Presbyterian n mission ba has been active thc in iu Beirut for nearly a 1 century It es a n church a 3 Sinday Sin Sun day dav s school bool a school and a 3 i rioting riot riot- in jug ing office whore where it publishes hes a a. n newspaper r and aDd a 0 monthly mB magazine Spread over o t the tho e province pro province are arc about o other b r schools connected with the American m missions 5 with jtb ninny many thousands of pupils Three married missionaries with their wives one bachelor mission bachelor ary lr alJ and aud live five women mi missionaries are encased in tho work T of oC tho ho society iu in Syria fh The Seventh Da Day Dav v Ad 11 h m missionary mis niia- board ha hat lias four lOis missionaries missionaries iu ill in inthe the country CO while helon belonging t lo to tho the Syrian Prote Protestant in 10 the be city I r o or of Beirut an institution generally J known as the American college e there arc 7 ThO 0 O students tu under the tho in instruction of fifty tt t professors thirty of wh whom m are arem Ameri American tm m n ii can citizens |