TURCO-ITALIAN WAR
A SANGUINARY CONTEST. ITALIANS LOSE HEAVILY. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] CONSTANTINOPLE, June 18. The Commander-in- Chief at Tripoli, in details of the recent fighting at Lebda and > Zenzur; states that two thousand Italians were killed in fierce hand-to-hand fighting. The Turks Had 250 killed and five hundred wounded. GOOD WORK BY DIRIGIBLE. ROME ; JUNE 18. Commander Peno, with two pilots in a dirigible, hovered at a distance of 1,000 yards and dropped bombs with great effect among the Turkish and Arab tents at Sidimufta, near Benhizi. Tlie Turks fired musketry and shells without effect. The dirigible dropped other bombs, reconnoitred, took photographs and brought back a perfect plan of the enemy’s position.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1912, Page 5
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