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Show lUISLW! DEAD ONIKE FIELD 'Attempt to Surprise Italians Near Derne, but Are Defeated, De-feated, With Heavy Loss. ROMG, Sopt. IS. The most sanguinary engagement of the war in Tripoli was fought yesterday near Derne, a town on tho Mediterranean coast, HO miles north-cast north-cast of Bengaai. The Italians lost sixty-one sixty-one men and wounded. The Turks and Arabs left more Mian S00 dead on the field. Forty-onu prisoners, Including an Arab chief, fell into tho hands of the Italians. The battle opened at daybreuk when a force of Turks and Arabs surprised and attacked the Italian lines. Tho fight raged for four hours but tho superior Italian artillery supplemented by brilliant bayonet charges -won the day and the Mussulmans fled in disorder. General Roisoli, commander of tho Italian Ital-ian army in Tripoli, In his report to the war office, estimates that tho Turks and Arabs must have lost 1000 men klllml, including in-cluding thoso who wero carried off and that nioro than 1000 others wero wounded. |