ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10463, 30 October 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

REPORTS FROM TRIPOLI.

CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF FIGHTING.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

TRIPOLI, October 28.

The Italian losses in suppressing Monday's outbreak in the town totalled 180. A house-to-house search continues.

Between forty and fifty Arabs are being shot daily.

The Italians will make no further advanoe until another 1500 troops arrive.

. The Mussulmans foroe behind Tripoli is estimated at 60,000.

Several thousand on Thursday attacked •« positions near Boumillian Wells.

The Italians, being entrenched, waited until the enemy was within 50 yards, and then made a bayonet charge. Three shells from warships fell amongst the enemy's cavalry.

The Italian casualties were 200.

Turkish accounts state that the plan of surrounding the Italians was only partially successful, through a portion of the Mussulmans acting prematurely.

The Italians were able to cut their way out, though they suifered great loss.

( The TTipolitan Sheiks, are summoning several thousand Ghorlie rebels to resist the invaders.

(Enver ißey is reported to have traversed Egypt to visit the Senussi tribesmen, who are expected to wage, holy war- in. the. Tripolitan hinterland.

An aeroplaaie greatly assisted the Italians on Thursday in revealing the enemy's movements and enabling an effective fire from the warships.

The Arabs endeavoured to shoot the 'aeronauts. {Some of the Italian losses were due io treacherous shots from the rear.

Subsequently the villagers' huts in Vnsis were burned and the. inhabit" ants were removed from the town.

One hundred were deported.

Borne Alpine soldiers, wearing ski, are traversing the\desert.

SEVERE LOSSES.

AMONG ARABS ANiD ; TURKS,

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

TRIPOLI, October 29

Twelve thousand Arabs and Turks were engaged in Thursday's fighting. <

Two thousand were killed and four thousand wounded..

GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP.

DEPRIVING THE PUBLIC OF

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

ROME, October 28

The newspapers express discontent at the Government censorship depriving the public of war news.

BOMBARDMENT OF BENGHAZI.

(Received October 28, 8.5 a.m.)

PARTS, October 27

French accounts of the bombardment of Benghazi by the 1 Italians state that the destruction of the .European quarter was a serious blunder.

Bursting .shells slaughtered women and children wholesale. Some French and British subjects were killed.

HOT FICHTINC,

ITALIANS FALL INTO A TRAP. *

(Received October 28, 8.7 a.m.)

iMALTA, October 27

Corroborated accounts from Tripoli state thatian Italian reconnaisanceat Tripoli encountered a. Turkish outpost. Tlie latter fired a few shots and then retreated.

The Italians, pursuing them, fell into a trap. A sudden turning movement was made by the Turks, who opened a heavy-fire.- 1 ■

Turks and Arabs appeared from all directions, aud there was hot fighting, both sides losing heavily. Three companies of the 11th Bensaglieris .were annihilated. 'Several Italian officers were cap- 1 tured,, mutilated,' and then hanged.

ATTACKS RENEWED.

DECIMATING FIRE BY ITALIANS

(Received October 28, 8.10 a.m.)

MALTA, October 27

The Turks and Arabs renewed their attack on the Tripolitan outposts today. They were received by a decimating

fire by the Italians, and retreated wit/i heavy losses.

The plans for the Italian advance iuto the interior include an elaborate system of blockhouses. ,

FURIOUS ATTACK.

ENEMY ADVANCE RIGHT TO TRENCHES.

(Received October 28, 11 a.m.)

ROME, October 28. - One thousand Turks and Arabs Iwere killed in Thursday's furious attack on the whole of the Italian front. j ' I ; Seven thousand men participated. The enemy 'showed great- dash, advancing right up to tlie trenches m one instance, in mass formation. They'endeavoured'to break through, but were repulsed. Several detachments of Arabs got behind the Italian front, but were quickly surrounded and annihilated.'

The Italians' total casualties numbered one hundred.

NAVAL ENGAGEMENT,

(Received October 28, 11.10 a.m.)

ROME', October 27

According to the newspaper Message™, two battleships in the Dardanelles attacked the Italian battleship Napoli, wliich, replying, sank one and damaged the other.

MONDAY'S AND TUESDAY'S FIGHTING.

(Received October 28, 11.20 a.m.)

LONDON, October 27

The Central News correspondent at Malta states that the Italians at Tripoli sustained four hundred casualties ori Monday and Tuesday last.

The trouble in the town has been renewed. Several Italian soldiers have been staiblbed, and two Red Cross men killed.

Thirty guns for the Italians were landed on Wednesday.