DARING PIECE OF WORK
ATTACK ON AN AUSTRIAN NAVAL
DIVISION.
(ADI. AMD N. 2. CAII.B ASSN. AND KEVTIR.)
LONDON, 12th June.
■An Italian official report states: An attack was made by two Italian torpedo boats, at dawn on Monday, near the Dalmatian Isles, upon an Austrian naval division, consisting of two battleships of the Viribus Unitis type (dreadnoughts), protected |by ten destroyers. Our torpedo boats boldly passed the line of destroyers and hit the leading battleship with one of the torpedoes. They were chased by destroyers, but returned safely to their base utter badly damaging one of the enemy destroyers.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 7
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100DARING PIECE OF WORK Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 7
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