SUBMARINE BASES. ITALIAN NAVAL FIND.
LONDON, May 17,
'The Milan correspondent of Lloyd V News states that the two chief secret bases for Austrian submarines ou the •f'nithprn Mediterranean coast .have been defin'tely destroyed, aa a sequel to the Italian occupation of Marsa Moreza and Porto Barleia, on the, coast between Cyi*eiia : .caand Egypt. Italian warships navigated the coastal waters without m?shap though the area was thickly mined. When the contingents disembarked one column marched •jn Borgo Sulieman and seized enormous stocks <«; tinned meaijs and other preserves which were ready foi* the enemy submarines. Other parVes searched the seashore and huge 'supplies of benzinp, stored in barrels find metal casks, were i^isooveied in caverns and r'.iined x w4rH. Dnrina dredging Avork the broken propeller of a submarine was- --found en -
tangled in a steel net.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 6
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