WARTIME SECRET

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 16

WARTIME SECRET

SEQUEL TO ITALIAN NAVAL

DISASTER.

The sinking of the Italian .battleship Leonardo da Vinci at Taranto on 3rd August, 1916, when several hundred sailors lost their lives, has recently been tbo subject of important revelations, fVi 5-, l|omo con-esiiondeul. of thq ■Daily Telegraph." Signer Tanaini, Y-arj organised and directed an -"official burglary iit the Austrian Consulate in Zurich, has for the first lime revealed tie contents of the documents found 'in the Consulate, which in the same month .led to the arrest o f Captain Sanloro, one oi the principal instigators in Rome of the Taranto disaster It appears from these documents that other first-rate Italian ships, ' including the Conte Cavouv and the Giulio Cesare. the greater part of the depots of Genoa, the Houses of Parliament in Rome, and the bmlding of tho Bank of Italy, were to have been blown up by the" sain* gang. But, thanks to the burglary earned out in tbo Austrian Consulate O.v lour llahau officials, news oi (he conspiracy was obtained in time, and turthcr disasters were avoided. The Austnans had ,-eceivod on l,hp very day preceding tho burglary a di.spaich lrom Captain Santera, who was at tiorae, announcing tho. siukY'fi nf "'0 Leonardo da " Vinci, and hinting ; ,i i| ]fc lir , vmcil( tl . w(u .. h _ h e beneved himself VV, entitled. fcitmo'lairani hnf.lenrd. across the frouUci'srid lr.rrTmpi] th 0 Jiulif,,, „,,v nl ;il ,|.t !or ih>s. »ttti tautciiq was iiarueditttcb- amitcd-'