THE MASSACRE AT EL KERAK.
TURKISH GUNS CAPTURED. By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright. Constantinople, December 15. Details of the rising of the Bedouins against tho Turkish troops at El.Kerak, near the Dead Sea, show that regulars wero distributed among tho tribes to disarm the Bedouins.
The latter planned and carried out tho massacre of the troops, and sixteen guns wero captured.
Tho massacre and looting of El Kerak followed. Christians wero spared.. Sixteen battalions of Rodifs have been sent from"Adana, in Asia Minor, to relievo 'the besieged garrison.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 December 1910, Page 5
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87THE MASSACRE AT EL KERAK. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 December 1910, Page 5
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