AUSTRIAN DESTROYER RAID

Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 5

AUSTRIAN DESTROYER RAID

ALLIED DRIFTERS ATTACKED. ENEMY CHASED' BY WARSHIPS. Australian ana N.Z. Cab?* Association.) and' Reuter-A LONDON, May*-19.' The Admiralty reports that on Tuesday Austrian light cruisers arjd destroyers raided an Allied drifter line in the . Adiratic and- sank- 14 British drifters. They claim, to have taken prisoner 72 members of the crews. Allied warships and- destroyers chased off the raiders. An Italian airman attacked them eft Cattarb, to which port a cruiser uac !y on fire and sinking was towed. The British admiral reports chat a sescond was badly damagedi He s-r'ds that while chasing the Austriahs a sub-, marine torpedoed the warship Dartmouthy which returned to port. Three were killed, five are missing, and sevenwere wounded. VICE-ADMIRAL SIR F. C. D. STURDEE; PROMOTED TO RANK OF ADMIRAL. {Australian arid'N.Z. Gable Association.l (Rec. May 21, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 20. Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton .Sturdee has beeri promoted . to the rank of Admiral . • Rear-Admiral De Rdbeck, has been promoted to Vice-Admiral. (Admiral Sir F. C. D. Sturdee's appointment is referred to in the War Notes in another. column.)