FIGHT IN THE ADRIATIC
ATTACK ON ALLIED DRIFTER LINE (Kec. May 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 19. The Admiralty reports: On- Tuesday Austrian light cruisers and destroyers raided the Allied drifter line in the Adriatic, and sank fourteen British drifters, and claim to have made prisoners of seventy-two members of the crews. Allied warships and destroyers chased off the raiders. An Italian airman attacked them off Cattaro, to which place a cruiser' badly 'afiro and in a. pinking condition wns towed. The British Admiral reports a second badly damaged, and adds: "While chasing tho Austrians a submarine torpedoed the warship Dartmouth, which has returned to port. Three were killed and five are missing. Seven were wounded." —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3089, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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