ITALY AND TURKEY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 19 June 1912, Page 8

ITALY AND TURKEY.

BOMBS DROPPED FROM A

DIRIGIBLE

■V CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT.

(Received June 19, 11 a.m.) ROME, June 18. Commander Penco, with two pilots in * dirigible, hovered at a distance of a thousand yards and dropped bombs with great effect among the Turkish a«d ilrab tents at Sidimufta, near Benghazi. The Turks fired musketry and shells without effect. The dirigible dropped other bombs, reconnoitred, and took photographs, and brought back a perfect plan of the enemy's position.