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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 15 January 1917, Page 5

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TWO ITALIAN DREADNOUGHTS DESTROYED.

(Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Jan. 13. An official message from Rome states that the battleship Regina Rargareita struck two mines out in the open on the night of the 11th and 12th, and sank fn a few minutes. Two hundred and seventy were saved with difficulty out of a complement of 945. The missing include the captain and fourteen officers. The Pall Mall Gazette says that the destruction of two Italian Dreadnoughts is believed to be due to a widespread Plot. Influential aliens residing in Rome are concerned and forty arrests have been made.