ITALIAN WARSPITES
IN THE DARDANELLES
ROMAN PRESS EXTOLS TORPEDO BOATS’ WORK.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ROME, July 21.
The newspapers are exultant over the Italians’ brilliant exploit at tlio Dardanelles, when a flotilla of torpedoboats made a dash of twenty kilometres up tho strait till they saw the Turkish fleet anchored, when they retired. According to tho ‘’Tribuna” tho forts arc protected by 800 guns. Tho ‘‘ Giornalo d’ltalio ” describes the reconnaissance as a magnificent self-sacrifice, comparable only to the Kanaris’ raids. IN THE RED SEA. ARABS AND ITALIANS CAPTUR FARSAN ISLANDS. ADEN, July 21. Advices from Hodeidah, in tho Yremen, state that Seymid Foris, who has been in revolt against Turkish rule, with his partisans, assisted hy Turkish warships, captured the Farsan Islands. Tho Turkish garrison of 200 men, and the civil officials, are prisoners.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 7
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