AUSTRIAN DESTROYER SUNK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2765, 8 May 1916, Page 5

AUSTRIAN DESTROYER SUNK

NAVAL ACTIVITY IN THE ADRIATIC By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. May 7, 5.5 p.m.) Rome, May 6. Four Italian destroyers in the Upper Adriatic on Wednesday sighted ten enemy torpedoors, which fled to Pola. The destroyers chased them to within twenty miles of Pola, shelling continuously, and only abandoning the pursuit when several large enemy warships left Pola to support the torpedoers. On the same day a French submarine sank «n enemy destroyer in the Lower Adriatic. ON THE WEST FRONT FRENCH SUCCESS AT SEVERAL POINTS By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyiißlit , Paris, May 6. A. communique states: After a violent bombardment westward of the Meuse, the Germans made a stiong attack on a position northward of Hill 304. The attack was repulsed as a whole, but the enemy gained a footing at some points in the advanced! trench. The High Commissioner reports:— London, May 5, 4.45 a.m. At Mort Homme, a small German attack on the r trenches we recently conquered .was stopped by our curtain of fire. London, May 5, 2.55 p.m. South of the Somme a coup-de-main attempted by the enemy on pur trenches' in the region of Cappy (two miles southeast of Bray) was completely checked. East of the Meuse, and in the Woeuvre, fchero has been intermittent artillery fire.

London, May 6, 3.45.. p.m. In the region of Lassigny wo executed a coup-de-main of the German trenches in the Orvol Wood, permitting us to make prisoners and inflicting losses on the enemy. In the Champagne region of SommoPy our artillery fire damaged a German battery, which was compelled to cease' fire. In the Argonne, yesternight a coup-de-main directed against a small salient of the enemy's line at the Binarville road permitted us to penetrate the German trouches, making prisoners and taking two machine-guns. ■ West of the Meuse an enemy, bombardment with heavy shells alia suffocating gas continued during _the night, attaining violence, in the region of Hill 304. We evacuated a portion of the trenches ou tho north slopes, which were destroyed and rendered untenable by enemy-fire. Our batteries replied with lesser energy, but succeeded iu stopping an enemy advance'" In the course of the night a German attack which was directed against tho wood west and north-west'of Hill'3o4. was repulsed with the bayonet. It is confirmed that the attack carried out before yesterday on our positions north (/f Hill 304 was carried out by ,a fresh division, which suffered heavily. The bombardment continued on out line at Mort Homme-Cumieres. _ West of the Meuse there was intense activity of artillery, in tho region of Vaux. . .■'•.'.''