ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10471, 8 November 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

ANOTHER ITALIAN REVERSE

FIVE HUNDRED KILLED

(Rocoivcd Last Night, 10.20 o'clock.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, November. 7. Enver Bey and Senussi chiefs have telegraphed that the Turks have seized Uerna, a seaport town which wan recently captured by the Italians. Tho Italians lost five hundred killed, and numerous prisoners were taken, together with eighteen guns. Tho Turks' loshses numbered eighty killed and eighty wounded.

OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA

TWENTY-NINE DEATHS

(Received Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.)

MALTA, November 7

Forty-six suspected cases of cholera and twenty-nine deaths, have been reported during tho last fortnight. The outbreak is well under control.

RAINY SEASON COMMENCING. SOLDIERS INEBRIATED WITH VENGEANCE.

(Received Last Night, 10.25 o'clock.)

ROME, November 7. The Turkish artillery bombarded the Italians throughout Monday, concluding with an attack on the Italians' left. Until nine o'clock at night aeronlanes dropped bombs into the Turkish camp. ,

Heavy downpours indicate that a rainy season is commencing. A correspondent of Turin "Stampa" states that the soldiers were inebriated with vengeance. Ho narrates that after other executions a husband and wife, ami two cplerdid types of Bedouins. were led to the wall. They took one another's hands and repeated r. prayer. The soldiers levelled their rifles, and tho husband was shot. ' The woman did not flinch.' An order was given to fire, the rifles were levelled, and she was killed. ' Later, an old woman was shot on a charge of concealing cartridges under rags. She was forced to strip though she feigned modesty to prevent the search.