RAID ON THE ADRIATIC
AUSTRIAN BATTLESHIP SUNK PANIC AT TRIESTE London, August 21. The "Daily Mail" publishes from Venice news of tho Anglo-French naval raid in the Adriatic, which produced nil indescribable panic .it tho Austrian port of Trieste. A special train v.has been waiting for days to take away Prince Hobenlohe, who has arranged to hand over his powers to tho Mayor. Whou the fleet appcara the Mayor is to surrender immediately, in order to save tho city and dockyards. | A MORTAL WOUND. . (Rec. August 23, 5.5 p.m.) ■ Paris, August 22. Official:—During the fight in the Adriatic, the second shell fired by the French struck the Austrian battleship Zrinyi's magazine. Siio sank immediately. . Tho Zrinyi was a battleship of 14,226 tons displacement, carrying four 12-inch. Runs, eight 9.4-iuch, twenty .- .8.9-inch, six twelve-pounders, and two maxims. Her principal armour belt was of nine inches thickness. The ship-was built at Trieste, launched in 1910,' and com. pleted in the following year.:j"Sh© had a speed of 20.5 knots. >
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2236, 24 August 1914, Page 5
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166RAID ON THE ADRIATIC Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2236, 24 August 1914, Page 5
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