TRIPOLI.
A SMALL ENGAGEMENT* ITAT.TAXS DEFEATED, Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 12.5 a.m.. Jan. 23th. ' TUNIS, Jan. 25. Advices from Tripoli state that three battalions cf Italian infantry and a small body cf cavalry were heavily defeated in. endeavouring to re-capture Sonsur, westward of Tripoli, the Arabs pursuing them to the outskirts of Tripoli, and espeEing them from entrenchments, where airly Italian corpses were found. A BARGAIN SUGGESTED. VIENNA, Jan. 25. The newspaper "Beichspost" suggest? that Italy suouid offer Turkey th= bulk of her East African prssessions in exrh.inro for Tr'pcli and Cyrenaica, to enable Turkey to conclude an honetzrabie peace.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14657, 26 January 1912, Page 5
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