Character Sketches. 



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Italy not find some better way to spend this money 

 at home? 'I'hey are bombarding; thi desert. 'I'he 

 only answer they get is the whistHng of the Sahara 

 wind and the crack of the Turkish rifles out among 

 the distant sand-hills. 



10. Edge of the oasis. 



11. View of oasis and desert. 



12. Trench. Soldiers facing both ways so as to be 

 Ijrepared for an attack from the town as well as for 

 an attack from the desert. 



13-18. Edge of oasis. Italians in trench, firnig 

 at enemy. 



19. Soldiers breaking into .Arab house. 



20. Soldiers hunting through oasis, shooting evory 

 Arab they see. (Interruption from Italians. The 

 ( hairman : " They have not seen it before, and are 

 wincing under the exhibition of the barbarity of their 

 countrymen.") 



21. .'\rabs being searched. 



22. "All the men in this crowd were shot." (In- 

 terru[)tion from Italians.) The Chairman : " My 

 dear Italian officer, you are under my orders. I am 

 colonel of this regiment." (Cheers.) 



23. Number of prisoners. 



24. Number of prisoners. " These people were 

 collei:ted by private soldiers, placed against a wall, 

 and shot. Tliere was no sign of justice ; there was 

 no trial. The .Vac York American says that there 



was justice, that there were trials, and, to prove its 

 point, publishes a [jhotograjjh of an .Arab being tried. 

 This was the only formal trial that took place. It 

 was held because the accused was a kavass of the 

 German Consulate, and the Italians had therefore to 

 consider the feelings of their great ally." 



25. Number of Arabs led out to be shot. 



26. (Iroup of Arabs being led out for execution. 



27. Same thing again. (Renewed interruption. 

 The Chairman : " If we may judge from the cynical 

 brutality of these interruptions we must consider that 

 if lie h.id been in Tripoli he would probably have 

 been as brutal and barbarous as anybody.") 



2<S. Servant of (leriiinn Consul. Young man, 

 eighteen years of age. Was accused of having killed 

 luilian soldier. Died very bravely. 



29. Trial of same Arab. 



30. Same trial. " I saw what looked like a blood- 

 stained cloth on the head of this youth inside the 

 white .\rab hood, which had been carefully drawn 

 over his head by the soldiers. He was not wounded 

 when arrested." 



31. " Execution of this Arab. Soldiers all missed. 

 Haii to fire thiity-eight shots before they killed him." 



32. "Here they have shot him at last. It was a 

 brutal exhibition." 



■^■,},. Two .Arabs condemned to die. 

 34. .Mr. McGee of the Daily Mirror. 



A. Heap of Arabs Executed by the iLilians oa October 26. 



