Chronology: Date 1911-10-21

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1911 21 Oct 191-	News of the Battle of Benghazi (17 October) was headline news. It was one of the opening salvos of the Turko-Italian War and began on the 17th of October when Italian invasion forces began their bombardment of the Turkish garrison. The Turks were forced to abandon the city and there were many lives lost, Italians, Turks and civilians. His talk, The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace. [ABF96-100 PT28-30; Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu´l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East by Kamran Ekbal p18] See as well SoW Vol 2 No 14 November 23, 1911 p5 for His talk on the Battle of Benghazi. The talk was attended by Remi de Gourmont, literary critic, essayist, poet and writer. The following day his editorial, "Le Béhhaïsmie: les idées dujour" was published in the newspaper Le France. [ABF95n287, 98]	`Abdu'l-Bahá, First Western tour; War; History (general); Peace; Remy de Gourmont; Colonialism and imperialism; Paris, France; France; Benghazi, Libya; Libya; Turkey; Italy


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