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Show TURKS CUT I TO PIECES 1 Arabs Surprise 1000 Troops Most of Whom H Are Killed H Hodeldah, Arabia, Juno 23. (Via ' M Aden, June 23.) Rebels In great force H today surprised and cup up a Turkish column commanded by Mahodcm. All Pasha outside Ghcesan, a town on H the Red Sea, about 100 miles north - H of Hodeldah. The Turkish soldiers, M numboring one thousand, most of H whom were killed. The commander H is missing. H The flgnting was so desperate and i at such close quarters that 500 Turk- ish fugitives are suffering from dagger H wounds. The survivors fled in dls- H order to Gheeean, pursued by the reb- ' "H -The Turkish gunboat Sutebbe, in- H tending to shell the Arabs, shelled Gheesan instead, killing or wounding il several hundreds of the soldiers The ll rebels captured four big guns, two iH Maxims, two thousand rifles and a, , ll quantity of ammunition and ultimately ISI retired. |