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Show S11IISIELIS CJIFMOF ELBA Austrians Claim to Have Done Big Damage Where Napoleon Was Confined. BERLIN, May '1, by wireless to Say-villc. Say-villc. Bombardment of . Porto Ferrajo, capital of the island of Elba. In the Mediterranean, Med-iterranean, by an Austrian submarine, is reported in a statement issued by the Austro-1 lungarinn admiralty May LIB. The announce men t says: "An A ustro-Hungarian submarine on the morning of May very successfully successful-ly shelled import a ut blast furnaces at. Porto Ferrajo. on l lie island of Elba. The i fire of the land buttery was without ef- , feet. j "The submarine later sank the Italian j steamer Washington." Porto Ferrajo is situated on the north I side of I he island of Elba. On a height overlooking the town is Hie villa of San . Martino, in which Napoleon was con-1 con-1 fined from May, IS 1 -4 . to February, 1815. j Lloyd's shipping" agency on May L'3 re-! re-! ported the sinking of the Washington ; The nationality or the Washington was l not given at the time, and it was generally gen-erally believed that the vessel was the I British steamship of that name, having a tonnage of n.SO gross. The Italian boat was built at Glasgow in 1SS0 and was 2J 19 tons gross. She was 352 feet long and 3S feet beam. |