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Show 00 ITALIANS BUTCHER LITTLE JCH ILDR Ell LONDON, Nov. 3. The agitation against alleged atrocities by Italians in Tripoli which has sprung up In the British press aud Is supported by a few members of the house of commons com-mons sinco reports arrived horo from English newspaper correspondents, received fresh impetus tonight through a telegram received by a news agency from Herbert Montague, a second lieutenant. Lieutenant Montague telegraphed tel-egraphed from Soukelyohma by way of De Illbal, on the frontier as follows: fol-lows: "I feel it my duty to send you the following telegram, and 1 beg you in tho name of Christianity to publish It through England. I am an English Eng-lish officer now voluntarily sorvlug Snathe Turkish army here. "As you know already about the ferocious resistance which the Turks and Arabs aie offering the Italians. I will only express my admiration for their bravery and for the gratitude grati-tude which would warm the heart of and Englishman or any true soldier In the world '"I magine my feelings when, on entering and driving the Italians out of Arab houses which they had fortified forti-fied and wero holding, we" discovered the bodies of some 120 women and children with their hands and feet bound, mutilated, pierced and torn. Lator on at (the name of the town was lost In transmission), wo found a mosque filled with bodies of women and children, mutilated almost beyond recognition. I could not count them, hut there must have been three or four hundred. "In this European war aro such crimes to bo committed'' Cannot England Eng-land do something to stop such horrors? hor-rors? In our civilization and time, you can hardly believe it, but It is true, nevertheless. 1 myself have seen It, so I know. "Even now wo are getting news of further massacreB of women and children who wore discovered on different dif-ferent farms latety occupied bv Italians. Ital-ians. The idea of the Italians" when they slaughtered to Innocents obviously obvi-ously was one of revenge for their heavy losses in battle. "We are at this moment under a hea'y shrapnel fire, so you must excuse ex-cuse me if these sentences aro somewhat some-what disjointed There is also an aeroplane circling over our position and directing the enemy's fire on us.'' Lieutenant Montague's message Is dated Nov. 2. on |