AN UNBIASED REPORT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 259, 7 November 1911, Page 5

AN UNBIASED REPORT.

OF THE 'FIGHTING AT TRIPOLI.

MALTA, Nov.} 6. Renter's Tripoli correspondentj Who iras able to give- an-unbiased report, states that if' the correspondents at Tripoli stated the 'facts they. *wouM Tiave immediately been expelled. 1 The Turks isngageS on the 23rd and^SStn •did not number-more than -2000^. yet they infficted losses Of at least' 1000, The Italian''line was' brbken, on. the 26th, In two places'by" less tha4 209 Arabs, who rushed the' Eighty-fourth Regiment and at "dawn gained the *over of the oasis. 'One* hundred,'dismounted Italian cavalry saved; the ■situation "by a charge, ' Ming the majority «oi I*® Arabs. "Thirty of t"ne Arabs, Tioweveor, held the position for three days'until "blown up by

amines. . '-,''■* i General t^aneva was so aiarmea lihat Tie abanaonea the outer works, including the Turkish fort-of Mesn. The army -worked feverishly to render iih© nmer position impregnable "with «ritrenchmerits arid barbed

The Turtß and Arabs-are now holding the -oasis, -where there is ample food in every ordhard awl gar Wen, which also afford natural defences to an ideal, position. As. far as the Italian line the Turks advanced their artillery and- dropped a shell m General Caneva' 5 s "headquarters. The Italians have been to a point from which they -cannot rdtire except hy sea. The -troops; aeve passed from >he greatest elation 'to deep depression.