The Archive · 1912

A Brilliant Bayonet

CHARGE, Rome, June 80.

An official statement cays that the fighting was renewed at Sidi Said on June 28 and that masses of Turks and Arabs, heavily reinforced, were discovered in the deep entrenchments. The whole Italian division bombarded the enemy and was assisted by three men-of-war. The Italians then made an assault on the position held by the enemy and engaged in a bayonet charge, routing the Turks, who left 200 dead on the field. The Italian losses were ten killed and seventy-eight wounded.

A corrected list of the Italians killed in the fighting on June 97 shows that twenty-nine were killed.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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