The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-26
AUSTRIA SAYS SHE
CAPTURED WARSHIP
Destroyer, Put Out Of Action
in Engagement Near Bar
letta. Surrendcrs.
Special Cable Dsspatch TO The Sen.

Specldf tdoic DSspd'cd 10 THE Sun.
VIENNA. via Amsterdam. May u.s.
The following statement regarding the
raid by Austrian warships on cit
les of the Adriatic coast OF Italy yes
was given out here to-day:
During the naval action an Aus
trian ~aeroplane dropped fourteen
bombs near Venice. The arsenal
there was set afre and seriously
damaged.
Near Barletta 1nor,h of Barb an
Italian turbine destroyer was put out
OF action and surrendered. The crew
as well as the commander and the
other officers were mad prisoners.
The Austrian destroyer Scharf-
schutze penetrated the narrow canal
AZ Porto Corsini till II ranged quite
close TO the fully defended Italian
trenches. Hidden Italian batteries
suddenly opened fire with twelve
centImeter guns against the Austrian
scout ship Novara and a torpedo boat
lying before the canal entrance and
killed many OF their own troops. who
were taken by surprise.
An Italian shell hit the oHicers'
mess room OF the torpedo boat. caus-
ing her to spring a leak. In order to
help the destroyer and the torpedo
boat out OF their precarious position
the Novara began a fanking fire
against the trenches. demJlish!ng the
barracks. but itself being struck sew
eral times.
A Lieutenant and four men were
killed and several men wounded. The
snemy's losses were perhaps twenty
tlmAe heavier. The Scharfschutze es-
capped unchanged. The torpedo boat
was assisted 10 Pola.
At Rimini (about ninety miles south
OF venice) the armored cruiser Sankt
Georg bombarded the railway station
and bridge. At Senisallia tabout
twenty-five miles northwest OF An
cona) the battleshlp Zrinyi demolished
the railway bridge and water TAM
the harhor works, the station and a
railway train.
At Ancona the greater part OF the
Rect ~bombarded the old Qualifications.
the artillery and cavalry camps. the
railway station and oil tanks. causing
fires which did enormous damage, de-
stroying three steamers. The Italians
offered resistance by light batteries
and machine gum only.
At the modern fors OF Alfredo
Saoli the garrison stood to their guns,
" aviators drove off the
Our airmen threw bombs on the balloon
shed al C~hiaravalle and other
strategic points.
The Italian airsh!p Citta di Ferrara
unsuccessfully attempted to attack
the retiring fleet, but speedily re-
tired when two OF our a~eroplanes.
which had been dropping bombs, ar
rived AT the scene. Another airship
had haap nheAruaA IN. nnr Shipa half
an o after midnight between
Pola and Ancona, evidently going TO
Pola, The airship disa ppeared TO the
northwest when our ships got close
to where she was flying.
The railway bridge across the
To,enza was bombarded and damaged
by the Radetzky. The Admiral
Spaun and four destroyers bonn
barded Sinaroa railway bridge and
station and the engine shed and pump
ing station. Campo Marano. The
semaphore at Tremili was destroyed
and the semaphore at the Tore di
Onto was damaged,
The Heligoland with four destroy
ers bombarded VIeste and Msnfre-
donia, At Barle,ta the Heligoland
met two Italian torpedo boats, She
opened fire on the Italians and chased
them. one escaped. The second was
driven by our d~estroyers Czepel and
Tatra toward Telagosa and she was
hit by a shell. which struck her
machine room. setting her afre, In a
sinking condition she surrendered.
The Czepel and the Tara and the
Ska rescued thirty-fve of her crew,
including the commander.
The work OF rescue "a interrupted
by the approach OF two battleships
from the northeast. which were
sighted a distance OF five and a half
miles. An action followed. or our
ships only Czepel was hit. One man
on board was severely wounded and
two were slightly wounded. The fire
Of the Italians was successfully an
swered by the Heligoland and the de-
stroyers. The shortest range was Ave
and a half miles, Our ships were soon
out OF reach of the Italian fire. The
fleet suffered no other losses.