TRIPOLITAN WAR
CABLE NEWS
(United Preu At»ociation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
A DESPERATE FIGHT TURKS REPULSED. WITH HEAVY LOSSES. (Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) ROME, March 14. Seven battalions of infantry and five batteries attacked an oasis. As they emerged from a grand redoubt, they met a heavy fire from six thousand Turks. The Italians carried out a successful flanking movement. After six hours' fighting the Turks fled. They were pursuefl with bayonets. Four hundred bodies were discovered in the oasis alone. The Turks carried off others before the retreat developed into a rout.
A TURKISH VICTORY. ITALIANS DRIVEN FROM ENTRJENCHatENTS. (■Received Last, Night, 9.25 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, March 14. It is officially stated that in the fighting at Tobruk on the 11th, the Turks compelled the Italians to retreat from their entrenchments, and take refuge aboard ships. Rifles and ammunition were captured.
The Turks had eighteen killed and sixty-eight wounded ,when supplying ammunition and provisions.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10584, 15 March 1912, Page 5
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153TRIPOLITAN WAR Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10584, 15 March 1912, Page 5
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