ITALY AND TURKEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10474, 10 November 1911, Page 5

ITALY AND TURKEY

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—-By 'Electric Telegravh — Copyright.

TUESDAYS FIGHTING SIXTY TURKS KILLED.

Received This Mbrning, 12.5 o'clock

TRIPOLI, November 9

Tuesday's fighting was. ebiefiy iil the open country around Hiamidioh.

The Turks left sixty kilfcd. General Oaneva, interviewed by the Daily MWl'is correspondent, declared that the Arabs .Mere paid for Buwendering their weapons, when they treacherously attacked' the troops? on the 23rd. It was necessary to shoot everyone persisting in retaining armis. If he eared it would be on the side of over-consid-cTiation and over-iindulgenoe.

OUTSIDE BENGHAZI

TURKS AND ARABS

CONCENTRATION

ITALIAN RECONNAISSANCE

(Received November 9, 8.30 a.m.)

TRIPOLI, November 8

It is officially stated that the Arabs and Turks outside Benghazi have concentrated at El Kabr.a, distant sixty miles.

The Italians at Benghazi made a reconnaissance, and seized a large quaivtity of ammunition and some cannon abandoned by the Turks.

FIXING LIMITS OF A CEMETERY

SURVEYORS ATTACKED.

POLICE AND TROOPS CALLED OUT.

(Received November 9, 9 a.m.)

TUNIS, November 8,

The municipality is fixing the limits of the Arab cemetery. While the surveyors were at work thousands of Arabs attacked them. Police and soldiers were at once summoned. Fifteen Arabs and four Italians were killed during the fighting.

ATTACK ON THE OASIS

GENERAL FRUGONI'S TROOPS IN ACTION.

DETERMINED RESISTANCE BY

TURKS

(Received November 9, 8.10 a.m.)

MALTA, November 8

Directly General Frugoni, the new Cammander-in-Chief in Tripoli, landed on Monday with fifteen thousand reinforcements, 'he resolved to. make a sally with a view to regaining the oasis.

The Turks and Arabs were at the time attacking the trenches east of the town.

The scheme was carried out with ad-1 mirable rapidity and energy. t The outpost advanced along the sea I front in a formation resembling huge | pincers thrust into the oasis. '

The Turks, who were completely surprised, made a determined resistance for two hours, but were driven into the interior of the oasis by the grenadiers, whove charge was covered by a .field battery near Hamadieh.

ORGY OF SLAUGHTER.'

ARAB TREACHERY. ,

(Received November 9, 1.5 p.m.)

LONDON, November 8

Apropos the massacre by the Italians, a correspondent of The Times, who was lately in Tripoli, says that the Arabs, who were ensconsed in a labyrinth of walled gardens, fig groves, and cactus alleyways, attacked the Benaglieri (sharpshooters) in the rear, exterminating two companies manning the trenches in front and rear. A frightful moment ensued when the Italians realised the possibility of teii thousand rifles'rising in fanatical rage upon their rear. This explains the Italian blood-lust and miserable stampede. The Arabs, adds the. correspondent, had a lesson of revolting, indiscriminate severity, but the retribution exacted by the Italians should have been less an orgy of slaughter.