TURCO-ITALIAN WAR.
♦ ■ FIGHTING AT KHOMS. 8/ Telegraph-Press Aseociation-Oopyrijht Rome, February 28. The Italians at Khoms (56 miles east-north-east of Tripoli) occupied the Gergheb heights, after losing eleven killed and eighty-two wounded. The Turkish and Arab losses were heavy.
Khqms, or Lebida, lies in a fertile undulating plain. It has a population of about 3300, and is a poor little seaport, with an open roadstead, relics of old fortifications, and nn Italian school. About two'miles south-east lies the ruins of Leptis Magna, in ancient times one of the richest trading centres iii North Africa. The ancient harbour, with its massive quays, at the mouth of the Kinyps, which was a copious stream in the Eoman age, but is now a scanty brook, is completely choked with sand. The great ruins of tho time of Septimus Severus are also now entirely buried in sand, with the exception of a'triumphal arch.
THE POWERS AND PEACE. (Rec. February 29, 9.25 p.m.) Roms, February 29. It is semi-officittlly stated that Russia ,c'i' nag asked Italy on what terras she lvould be prepared to make peace, in view of the five Powers taking , such steps as they coelidcr opportune with Turkey.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1377, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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