An Italian airman dropping pamphlets amongst the Arab population of Tripoli during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-1912, the pamphlets were printed in Arabic and announced the bombardment of Beirut by the Italians. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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