TURKEY AND ITALY
THE FIGHT NEAR BENGHAZI. SECOND MOST IMPORTANT IN 'THE WAR. By Telegraph, -PreM A&s6ria.tloft.— Copyright. TRIPOLI, 19th September. Enver Bey, supported by artillery, led the Arab attack oil the Italians, neaT Benghazi. The fight, which lasted eight hoUTS, is regarded , as the second most important battle of the war. [It is said the Arabs were repulsed with a lose of 800 killed, the Italians losing 61 killed and 130 wounded. 1 Enver Bey is one of Turkey's foremost military men. Ho, with Niazi Bey, was the hero of the Young Turks Revolution. Not long after the commencement of the Italian-Turkish War, he volunteered to organise the various Arab tribes of Turkey for home defence in the interior of Tripoli.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 71, 20 September 1912, Page 7
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