AN HISTORIC PORT.
With the rise of modern Italy as a naval^ power and as a possessor of colonies in Africa, Erindisi, where the, Montenegrin King landed recently in his flight from t)he Teutons, and which was once a pirates' nest, has renewed some of its eld-time fame and activity. This famous Italian war port has seen the departure of Roman soldiers'-as far back as 245 8.C., to Macedonia and Syria. It ia situated on the Adriatic, where the sea narrows into the Straits of Otranto, on a bay almost enclosed by a rocky prohiontoryi There is an outer and an inner harbour connected by a channel 565 yds long and 165 feet wide. The inner harbour is practically land-locked. Brindisi ha 3 never regained its commercial importance since the steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. ceased calling there in 1898, going to Marseilles instead, but up to the. outbreak of the war some 150Q vessels cleared there annually, handling more than _ £1,200,000 worth of coal, flour, sulphur, timber, and metals. . ,
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 10
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174AN HISTORIC PORT. Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 10
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