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Current History in Caricature. 



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William Stead Intervenes. 



The subject 

 of the atrocities 

 ill Tripoli is 

 treated in a 

 special number 

 of the Pasqiiino 

 of i'urin. I 

 reproduce two 

 of their pic- 

 tiires. One is 

 dedicated to 

 me by name. 

 It represents a 

 Turkophile ex- 

 jjressing his in- 

 tense sympathy 

 with a Turk, 

 who has unfor- 

 tunately cut liis 

 finger while dis- 

 embowelling an 

 Italian soldier. 

 Our Italian 

 friends seem to 

 be singularly 

 deficient in 

 humour, other- 

 wise they coulil 

 not help but 

 see how their 

 cartoons recoil 



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Atrocities in Tripoli. 



According to .in Italian c.irtoonist. 



upon themselves. It was the Italians wiio burst into their neighbour's territory, uninvited massacred some 

 four thousand women and children, and now are raising piteous howls to high heaven because they find some 

 score or more- Italian soldiers who have been subjected to atrocious treatment by way of reprisals. If there 

 be anything in arithmetic, the whole point of the cartoon entitled " To William Stead " recoils upon the 

 Italians, whose treacheries enormously exceed the maximum that has ever been alleged against the Turks; 

 and the latter, after all, were merely defending their homesteads against an unprovoked foreign aggression. 



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