TURCO-ITALIAN WAR
FIGHTING AT DERNA. A HOT ENGAGEMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, March S. There was fierce lighting at Derna, frequently at close quarters, all day on .Sunday. Tho Italians made repeated bayonet charges in repelling the Turks and Aralvs. The latter's attempted flanking movement was frustrated by a timely reinforcement. Tho Italian casualties -were 150, but those of tho Turkish arc unknown. FORTS BOMBARDED. PBRIM, March 5. An Italian torpodoor bomharded tho Sheiksaid fort<«. DEATH OF ITALIAN COMMANDER. ROME, March U Anbry, naval commandor-in-ehicf during tho war, died Biiddenly aboard tho battleship Vittorio Einanuele. THE CASUALTY LIST. ROME, March 6. (Received March 6, at 11.15 p.m.) Eight officers wcro killed and 13 wounded at Dorna, and 52 men wero killed, 29 severely wounded, and 135 slitrhllv wounded. Tho Eritroan battalion, after a six hours* engagement, repelled tho Arabs near Bierl. Tlw Aralxs lost 100 killed and the battalion lost nine killed, while 28 wcro wounded.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15396, 7 March 1912, Page 7
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