NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS.
IN THE ADRIATIC
BRINDISI BOMBED,
(Press Assn. —Reed. 4.5 p.m.)
ROME, May G
Four Italian destroyers in the Upper Adriatic on Wednesday sighted ten enemy torpedo boats, which fled to Pola. The destroyers chased them to within 20 miles of Pcla, shelling them continuously, and only abandoning the pursuit when several large enemy warships left Pola to support the torpedoers.
On the same day a French submarine sank an enemy . destroyer in the Lower Adriatic.
Five Austrian aeroplanes bombed Brindisi, including the hospitals, where they killed four patients.
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Northern Advocate, 8 May 1916, Page 3
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