. Italy in North Africa : an account of the Tripoli enterprise . etracting from Italian prestige,and the news of successes elsewhere was doubly welcomeon that account. As week after week went past it became increasinglydifficult to realise that Tripoli was the base of an invadingarmy whose most advanced posts were well within therange of gun-fire from the sea. In the town itself therewas every kind of peaceful activity, and the oasis wasgradually being repeopled. Towards the end of Decemberthe Arabs who had fled to the desert began to return, andby the middle of January the sheikhs of the Sahe
. Italy in North Africa : an account of the Tripoli enterprise . etracting from Italian prestige,and the news of successes elsewhere was doubly welcomeon that account. As week after week went past it became increasinglydifficult to realise that Tripoli was the base of an invadingarmy whose most advanced posts were well within therange of gun-fire from the sea. In the town itself therewas every kind of peaceful activity, and the oasis wasgradually being repeopled. Towards the end of Decemberthe Arabs who had fled to the desert began to return, andby the middle of January the sheikhs of the Sahel districthad sent in a list containing the names of two thousand threehundred Arabs who had returned to take up their occupa-tions again. About the same time those inhabitants ofthe oasis who had been living in the town since the revoltwere allowed to go out to their gardens by day, and workunder surveillance, returning at nightfall. A little laterthe inhabitants of the suburb of Dahra, largely Maltese,were permitted to return to their homes, and the fugitive. ... 3 Photo Captain MoleARABS COMING IN FROM THE DESERT TO MAKE SUBMISSION
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