ITALY AND TURKEY.
( ANOTHER TURKISH SUCCESS. DERNA RECAPTURED. , United Press Association—By Electric I Telegraph—Copyright. | CONSTANTINOPLE, November 7. I Enver Bey and Senussi chiefs have tolegraplied that the Turks seized Sterna. The Italians lost five hundred lulled, numerous prisoners and eighteen guns. The Turks lost eighty killed ;aad: eighty wounded. FIGHTING AT TRIPOLI. THE ITALIA~n"bARBARITIES. ROME, Noremebr 7. '* The Turkish artillery bombarded the /Italians throughout Monday, concluding with an attack on the Italian left until nine o'clock, at night. Aeroplanes 'dropped bombs into the Turkish camp. Heavy downpours indicate that the >ainy Benson is commencing. ' The correspondent of the Turin .•"Stampa" states that the soldiers Hvere inebriated with vengeance. He narrates that after other executions a husband and wife, t:vo splendid types l>f Bedouins, were led to a wall, took one another's hands and repeated a prayer. The soldiers levelled their rifles and the husband was shot. The '.■ woman did not flinch. Tho order was given to firo, tlie rifles were levelled, ■and she was killed. ' Later an old 4*H-oman was shot, charged with oonoealiing cartridges under rags. She was •forced to strip, though she . feigned jnodfisty to prevent a search.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10304, 8 November 1911, Page 1
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