FROM-JAWS OF DEATH.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 361, 9 April 1912, Page 2

FROM- JAWS OF DEATH.

ITALIAN SOLDIER'S CLOSE CALL. Though the cables give readers a general idea of the progress of important events such as thp Avar between Turkey and Italy, there are, of course, exciting details of incidents inseparable from warfare .which do not find their way to this end of the world. One such incident, which was published m the Milan paper, the *Domenica del Corriire,' is well worth telling. 'Tlie hero of it is a young Bersaglieri named Guiseppe Bozotto, who had a miraculous escape" from a frightful death at the hands of a party of Arabs. He was one of nine men from that famous regiment of sharpshooters detailed to proceed to a fence some four miles from the town of Tripoli to watch the movements of tho enemy. He and his comrades had reached the fence, when suddenly a volley was fired by Arabs from the windows of a house m the rear, whence no danger was anticipated. Six of the nine Italian soldiers fell dead, Bozotto being one of the three survivors, who were overpowered and seized by the Arabs. Two m turn were tied to trees and butchered with knives before the eyes of Bozotto, who awaited the same awful fate. His turn came, and he was actually strapped to a tree, and expecting the knives to pierce his flesh, when ho heard the tramp of a detachment of soldiers. He knew not whether they were friends or foes, but with all the power of his lungs he called for help m Italian. His voice was heard, and the soldiers— men of his own regiment — scattered the Arabs with a volley, and rescued their comrade. The shock, however, had been more than a human frame could stand, and Bozotto lost both the power of speecb and hearing. All's well, however, that ends well, and baying been shipped to Mjian the doctors, by the use of electric appliances, restored to him the use of ears and tongue.