NAVAL ACTION IN THE ADRIATIC.
COASTAL BOMBARDMENTS BY BOTH FLEETS. ROME, June 20. An official communique states:—< The Austrian fleet bombarded the lighthouse at the mouth of the Tagliamento, north-east of Venice. Our destroyer flotilla repulsed the attack, afterwards bombarding Tannario and the Austrian lighthouse at Salvore, on the southern headland of the Gulf of Trieste. An Austrian destroyer bombarded - Monopoli, on the southern Adriatic coast, north-west of Brindisi. and unsuccessfully attempted to ignite the naphtha depot. AYe bombarded an Austrian munition and armament factory near Trieste. An enemy destroyer torpedoed the small Italian steamer Maria Grazia. The crew were landed safely. ,
Austrian scouts and destroyers bombarded the completely undefended towns of Pesaro and Rimini, between Ravenna and Ancona, damaging only a few houses. Three civilians at Rimini were slightly wounded.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 146, 21 June 1915, Page 5
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