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Show BIG AUSTRIAN 'i DREADNOUGHT IS t BADLY DAMAGED LONDON, Dec. 80. 3:33 a. m. A die-pa die-pa Uh to the Dally Mall from Venice contains con-tains a report that a French submarine i boat has torpedoed the Austrian dread- J nought Virions Unitls at Pola. H It Is said the hull of the dreadnought M was pierced, but that she succeeded In jj reaching her dock. i ' o The Virions Unltis is of 20,000 tons dis- j ?r placement and has a complement of 1003 i n men. She is one of the four ships con- ; T stituting the largest type of the Austrian J c n navy. ; e A London newspaper dispatch from j t Venice ln September said that one side of , the Viribus lnltls had been badly dam- j p aged in a fight ln tho Adriatic, but that t she escaped her pursuers. , v |