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Show WAR OFVENBEANGE TERRIBLE MASSACRE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW POSSIBLE RECAPTURE RECAP-TURE OF TRIPOLI BY TURKS. Reports of Butcheries by Italians Has Aroused Indignation of Turks and Their Arab Allle, Who Vow Vengeance Upon the Invaders. London Wireless messages received re-ceived from Tripoli state that the Turks and Arabs are ready to attack Tripoli and that a crunhlng defeat for the Italians seems Inevitable. The message states the attack Is expected hourly. If the Turka and their Arab allies are vlctoilous It lit believed that one of the moHt ter-rlblo ter-rlblo massacres In history will be the result. It Is known now beyond tho semblance of a doubt that the Italians Ital-ians subjected their prisoners to Inhuman In-human cruelties as reported and what will occur when the Turks re-conquer re-conquer Tripoli Europe shudders to think or. Delayed dispatches reporting Ita! Ian atrocities are coming In from all points. English, French and German correspondents tell the same story of Italian barbarism and pictures from the front give the details. Signed statements of eye-witnesses are also appearing in all the papers. In the face of developments Italy's official denials of the acts attributed to ber soldiers are wasted words. Several pictures received show great piles of women and children murdered and mutilated. KngliHh Indignation at the butchery has reached a high pitch. Premier Ascjuith and Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary, are severely criticized criti-cized for prohibiting a discussion of the massacre In parliament. |