The Archive · 1911

The Position in the Town

The Italians now occupy Tripoli. A further force of Italians with gons and quick-firing machine guns was landed after a number of Arabs had come on board the Italian fi ship expressing their submission and asking for the cessation of the bombardment, while the German Consul-General in Tripoli, Dr. Alfred Tilger, requested Vice-Admiral Faravelli to assume the control and Ocr. 14, 1911, order of Tripoli, the Turkish tr having abandoned the town. "the German Consul stated that no Europeans were injured nor wore any residences damaged during the bombardment,—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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