AUSTRIAN CRUISERS' RAID IN ADRIATIC.
ONE TOWED TO PORT AFIRE AND SINKING
LONDON, May 20.
The Admiralty reports that Austrian light cruisers and destroyers on Tuesday raided an allied drifter line in the Adriatic Sea, and sank 14 British drifters. The Austrians claim to have made prisoners 72 members of the crews. Allied warships and destroyers chased off the raiders, and an Italian airman attacked them off Cattaro. to which a cruiser badly on lire and in a sinking "condition was towed. The British admiral reports that a second Austrian cruiser was badly damaged. He adds that while the Dartmouth was chasing the Austrian ships a submarine torpedoed her. The Dartmouth returned to port. Three men on her were killed ,and five are missing. Seven were wounded.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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