TRIPOLI WAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1322, 28 December 1911, Page 5

TRIPOLI WAR.

ITALIANS SURPRISED,

IBj TeleeraDh.-Press Assocla.tton.l Malta, December 28. Advices irom Tripoli stale that tixtcen thousand Arabs, with caunon and quickfirers, participated in tho recent attack on Ainzara. The Italians were surprised and thrown into disorder repeatedly. They have been reinforced, and are converting Ainzara. into an imprcguablo fortress, mounting long-range guns. "TURKEY MUST WIN." "If Turkey stands firm she must win." so writes the "Central News" correspondent at the Turkish Army headquarters, near the town of Tripoli. "That," he continues, • "is my personal conviction alter exfierienco of the determination and enthusiasm animating the Turkish forces now acting m Tripoli. Tho Arabs are ™iymg to the cause in increasing numbers, and aro clamouring to bo supplied with modern rifles. There is no lack of cmcers to drill these fierce sons of the rtesert in the principles of modern wartare, and captains and lieutenants aro ca 'J, y , m S, on this work with fervour. Jhe Turks have already acquired n. contempt for shell fire, though onlv the contempt that is born of familiarity. 'Thev can lough now as they make for'shelter when the shrapnel bullets begin to rain iirouml them, and it is really amusing io 6CD fclio way the younger men will scramble for pieces of a burst shell to preserve 11S souvenirs. To-day, .following tho departure of tho Italian cniiser winch has been bombarding us from the coast, Musaßcy called his men out of then- ronchos and, parading them, led oft with cheers for the Sultan, which mne out .nsmringly all along the lines B ii mH s flav ° so far been paid reBJilarly. lhis, as past experience has shown, means much to tho Turk. A sum Ll° ir a ." ' m ' m < by ivraos and Maliomniedans genoralv to ktep U,o war going, reached us to-day, so that, there is no ansioty for the nio'i"mid" Ln d r i f i l j v CODS 'Sn m ™ls of rifles aro '.'The children and the women aro now ert, and which affords shelter to 11 non <nse admirably supplied SomJ ano ci* els bring in our provisions dailO

TURKISH FORCE REPULSED. (Rec. December 28, 1.10 a.m.) ■ . Tripoli, December 27 A thousand Turks, stretching in a line wm (he sea to Berka, advanced f n he westward towards Benghazi. tZ Italians withheld their firo unt il , h « enemy was within two thousand yards, when the artillery drove them off, inflicting considerable loss.