Severe Fighting

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 October 1911, Page 3

Severe Fighting

REPORTED Rl<]-CAPTUR,E OF

TIM POL!. ALLKGKi) HEAVY ITALTAN ' LOSSES. I'T KLECIRIC T PKn Pi'.Fhs .KSiariiTina v (Received This Dav, 9..10 am ) LONDON, October 30. The Turki*} attacks on Tripoli were more stubborn than the J'talia.iis admit. European refugees assert that :ho position is critical. Turkish p: pers state that Tripoli liris; boon re-captured.' One paiv.r alleges that the Turks on Saturday_drove the Italians hack into the city', the tatter losing three hundred kille;' and seven ihundrcd wounded . ' TTALLAN .SEVERITY. IIALTA. Or-toher 30. Details of last Monday's h'sjht show that the Italians suppressed tihe _ rising with the utmost severity, wiping out .an oasis which was adanger spot, hy sVooting without trial every Arab met there. In the t-nnfusion many women and children were killed. Reuters correspondent was not allowed tf> enter .R.onehazi_. d)iit learned thot the 'hoinhni'dmeiiit on the I.9th did immense damage. Nearly 300 civilians, hiclu-ding "100 women and children, were killed.