ITALY'S WAR.
VEXTCE BOMBED. PROMPT IT ALIA X REPRISAL. POME, August 15. A group of enemy aeroplane? bombed Venice at daybreak on Tuesday. A bomb fell on a hospital, killing two and wounding ttvemy-ono patients. The material damage was 'slight. Antiaircraft guns shot down several of the raiders. An Italian air squadron immediately earned out reprisals, successfully bombarding the enemy's coost- and a group of Austrian destroyers. The machines returned safely. AUSTRIAN VERSION. i.ustraJian and N.Z. Cabla Association in<3 Router. LONDON, August 10. in .Austrian official wireless n:c-s----iag6 says:— As a reprisal for the serial attack on Fo!i numerous aeroplanes attacked! the maritime arsenal at Venice and successfully dropped four tons of bombs. They observed good hits and conflagrations. Three machines are missing
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12088, 17 August 1917, Page 2
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