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Show 'TURKS LOSE , BIG BATTLE Most Bloody Engage-1 ment of Tripoli War Is Fought 1 1 Rome. Sept. IS The most sangul- , nary engagement of the war in Trip- I oil "was fought yesterday near Dern?. I a town of the Mediterranean coast. I miles north of Bengazi. The Italian- 1 lost fit men and 116 wounded Tup Turks autl Arabs left more than ?' dead on the field. Forty-one prison- 1 ers, Including an Arab chief, fell Into 1 the bauds of the Italians. j The battle opened at daybreak when a forco of Turks and Arabs surpilsod ! and attacked the Italian lines. Tho fight raged for four hours but the su-ucrior su-ucrior Italian artillery, supplemented ' by brilliant Ziyouet charges, won tho day and the Mussulmen fled In disorder. disor-der. General Reisoll. commander of th" 1 Italian army in Tripoli, In his report I to the war offke, estimates that the ' Turks and Arabs must have lost 1,000 men killed including those who were carried off. and that more than 1,000 othois were wounded. |