THE TRIESTE RAID.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14588, 17 December 1917, Page 5

THE TRIESTE RAID.

HARBOUR PROTECTIONS

DESTROYED

SINKING OF THE WIEN.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

Rome, Dec. 14

Details of the sinking of the Wien slow that two torpedo boats cut eight cables protecting the entrance to Trieste harbour, and removed the mines. They found the Wien unprotected by nets. The Austrian searchlights failed to pick tip the torpedo boats, which launched torpedoes against the Wien and another battled: ip.

Indescribable confusion followed among Austrian ships in the harbour. The torpedo boats escaped amidst violent fire from the shore batteries.