FIGHTING IN TRIPOLI.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 5

FIGHTING IN TRIPOLI.

S ft I ENGAGEMENT AT TOBRUK. i i = ONE THOUSAND TURKS KILLED i j DIFFERING VERSIONS. '• By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyrigli Rome, March 13. The Italians at Tobruk repulsed e vigorous Turco-Arab attack. Doth side 0 attempted Hanking movements. The ltnl 1 ians had thirteen killed and seventy -, three wounded. o One thousand Turks and Arabs wer - killed near Benghazi yesterday, chicfl, 11 in bayonet charges. , The Italian losses were three officer t and twenty-six men killed, and seven otfi cers and fifty-fivo men wounded, s Two oases north-east of Fojat have bee: '■' ( occupied by the Italians. SIX HOURS' FIGHT. I) • 0 FOUR HUNDRED BODIES FOUND. 0 (Rec. March 14, 9.25 p.m.) <j Rome, March 14. n Seven battalions of infantry and fiv 0 batteries of artillery attacked tho oasif As they emerged from tho grand rcdoub 0 the men were under heavy lire from si: 0 thousand Turks. 5 The Italians carried out a succossfu '' flanking movement, and after sii hours fighting tho Turks fled. They were pur sued at the point of the bayonet. Fou . hundred bodies were discovered in tk 0 oasis alone. Tho Turks bad carried ol tho others before the retreat developei into a rout. 1 TURKISH VERSION. 0 ITALIANS DRIVEN TO THEIR SHIPS t (Rec. March 14, 9.25 p.m.) j 1 . Constantinople, March 14. 'J It is officially stated that in tho fight I, ing at Tobruk on March 11, the Turk !i compelled the Italians to retreat frou i their entrenchments and to take refugi f aboard their'ships. Tho Turkish force £ captured Italian rifles and ammunition The Turks had 18 men killed and 01 wounded while supplying ammunition'am provisions. Constantinople, March 13. Edhem Pasha reports a Turkish sue cess at Tobruk. The Italian casualties he says, numbered two thousand. RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR RECALLED * Constantinople, March 13. Russia has recalled Al. Tcharykof, win has been Ambassador at Constnntinopli B sinco 1909. ' (Rec. March 14, 9.2") p.m.) St. Petersburg, March .14. i It is understood that M. Tcharykof: 1 recall is due to his outspoken opposition . to tho mediation proposals. - INGENIOUS SCHEMES FOR PEACE. ! Tho well-informed Constantinople cor- - respondent of tho "Frankfurter Zeitung" . discusses the question of peaco between _ Turkey ami Italy, and, while reaffirming his couviction that Turkey would never make peace on the basis of the Italian decree of annexation, indicates a movement among serious politicians in Constantinople in favour of compromising on the point at issue by constituting the two African provinces independent States under a Native chief, the States to be annexed by Italy after a lapse of some years, just as Russia did with the Crimea in virtue of tho Kutchuk-Kainardji Treaty. The plan dees not lack ingenuity, but the correspondent himself does not • seem to believe in its acceptability to 1 Italy, and mentions another scheme which 1 is being ventilated in Constantinople for ; exchanging Tripoli ivnd Cyrennica for i Italian Somalilnnd and Erytnrea. , Meanwhile it is interesting to note that the Turkish Government has transmitted to the two "occupied" provinces the necessary writs for holding tho elections to tho new Chamber.