THE WAR.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1459, 10 November 1911, Page 5

THE WAR.

BMW Tripoli, Yesterday i (PreaD Association-By.Telegraph-Copyright). It is officially stated that th> Tut'ks and Arabs outside Benghazi ai'S' concentrated at El Kabra, a distance of 60 miles. The Italians in Eanghazi initio a reconnaisance and seized a large qnantity of ammunition and some cannon abandoned by the Turks. THE OASIS SLAUGHTER. Taicbau, Yesterday. The- Times correspondent lately in Tripoli says the Arabs were ensconced 'in a labyrinth of wattled gardens, fig groves and cactus .aieyways. They attacked tlio Bersagleri in tine *«, exterminating two companies manning the trendies front ami rear. A frightful moment ensued wta the Italians realised the .possibility of' 10,000 rifles rising in fanatical rage upon their rear. This explains tine Ita'liam Wood-lust and the miserable stampede. The Arabs had a lesson of revolting indiscriminate severity, .but retribution should have been lass- like an orgy of slaughter. THE NEW ITALIAN COMMANDER Malta, Yesterday. Directly flinigoni lauded te resolved to .make a saMy. with a view to reaching the oasis. The Turks 'and Arabs -at the time were attacking, the trenches east of the town. The •moviemnanit was carried out with admirable rapidity and energy. Am outpost adivianced along the sea front, the .formation resembling, a kige-pin-cers thrust upon the oasis. The Turks were completely surprised, hut made a determined .resistance for two : hours, but were driven into the- interior of the oasis by the whose charge was covered by a field battery near Bamadich.