THRILLING ADVENTURE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 699, 8 May 1916, Page 7

THRILLING ADVENTURE.

CAPTIVE BALLOONS ADRIFT. OBSERVERS USE PARACHUTES. (Received May 8, !).1;"> sum.) PARIS, May 7. In Ihe Yrnhm region, 20 captive balloons broke from llieir moorings during a storm on Friday. Mosl of llie observers landed by means of parachutes in our lines, but some were earned inlo the enemy zone.. DESTROYER ACTION. FIGHT IN ADRIATIC. AUSTRIAN VESSEL SUNK. Four Malum destroyers in llie Upper Adrialie on Wednesday sighted 1(1 enemy destroyers, which lied lowards Tola. The Italian ships chased the enemy to within 20 miles of I'ola, shelling them continuously. They only abandoned the pursuit when several large enemy warships left I'ola to support the Austrian destroyers. On the same day a French submarine sank an enemy destroyer in the Lower Adrialie. |Pola is Hit- instill l.ase of Ihr Aiistritin Navy. II is situsited at the southern end ol' the Istrian Peninsula, in the Upper Adriatic, between Trieste and Kinuie.J