ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

-■3 ALLIES' DRIFTERS RAIDED ;' BY AUSTRIAN WARSHIPS. ■ v.| TWO CRUISERS DAMAGED, . ',■] •BRITISH WARSHIP Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. i ■'.;' , London, May Ift, ' "4 Tl »> Admiralty reports that on Toe* ~"i day, Austrian light cruisers and *."j "troyers raided the Allied drifter line to ■• « the Adriatic and sank fourteen Britiak ±£ drifters. They claim to have tt4t*s '-1 prisoner -seventy-two member* of fb» '** crews. Allied warships and destroy^ s n3 chased off the raiders. , , a Italian airmen attacked them off Oat* , p tare, whereto a. oriuser -which *u UdMr M afire and sinking was towed. " r 'A The British Admiral reports that »,' j? second cruiser was badly damaged, MA *h adds that while chasing the AusteUllt "'a a submarine torpedoed the warship Dat.S ; 'Jjj mouth, which returned to port, three ff *■*( the crew being killed, five missing, at*} •■*« seven wounded. , ""'•" ,• $ EXCHANGE) OF NAVAL OFFICEHI. * J ißefteived May 19, S JS pjtf, ■ ; J1 London, May W». "''■!s Captain Evans, of the Broke, iNAi?<*l| played such a dashing and oourandtta ''Hi part in the recent destroyer action, Vpi M been sent to America in exchange Iff <M Admiral Sims. ■ '*m ' - "»ra