Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 1 | 13 Killed by Bombs in City of Padua

T r e v i s o and Other Towns Closer to the Fighting Line Also At- i tacked by Austrian Airmen; Air-men; Berlin Reports Failure of Italian As- i sault Near Monte Tomba. COLD WEATHER ON THE OTHER FRONTS j Three British Torpedo Boat Destroyers Tor- j pedoed or Run Into I Mines in Dutch Waters; 193 Lives Lost in the Latest Naval Disaster. ! Oohl weather and snow in the European Euro-pean fighting zone have, reduced military mili-tary activities to a minimum in most sectors. Only in northern Italy has thero been any movement of importance impor-tance in the last forty-eight hours. Even there infantry operation is reported re-ported from only one point on tho battle bat-tle line. The Italians took tho initiative, initia-tive, delivering a blow at tho Austro-German Austro-German line near Monte Tomba, on the mountain front just to tho "west of the Piave. The German war office reports re-ports that engagement, declaring that the Italian attack was broken up by the defensive fire. The principal aerial activity, also, is reported from the .Italian front. Austrian Aus-trian airmen recently beaten off from Treviso with the loss of eleven airplanes air-planes carried out a bombing raid Friday Fri-day night in which the city of Padua, rich in art treasures, was attacked. None of the city's noted monuments was harmed, but eight bombs dropped in the most densely populated part of the town killed thirteen persons and injured sixty others. Bombs dropped oil Treviso and two other towns closer to the fighting lines than Padua, whieh is some thirty-live miles from the front, caused no damage or casualties. I In naval warfare, torpedoes or mines I scored against British torpedo boat destroyers de-stroyers operating off the JJutch coast. Three of these craft were sunk on the night of December '22 during foggv J weather, with the loss of li)3 officers ; and men. In addit ion to the artillery activities activi-ties reported on the J talian front , British nirnien have been active in France over some of the territory occupied oc-cupied by the Germans. The British headquarters report Saturdny, snid that thirteen hostile airplnnes had been mc- ; counted tor, eleven of which were shot i down and the two others driven down out of control. The British lost three machines in these aerial conibnts mid of the (Jer man airplanes destroyed the Brit ish land guns brought down four. ! 1 RETIREMENT OF JELL1COE RESULT OF NAVAL LOSSES LONDON, Dec. Whether ror- ' reetly or not, the su p.-u sessiuit of Admiral Ad-miral iSir John Jidli'-oe ;i s first sea lord is popularly believed to hove been the direct seipiel of t he loss of t he three British destroyers near the Butch i coast. This incident hns been '-generally Known here, although only jnt ;tn- ' noiuieed ol fii'ially. iSeeial days ago the first lord of the admiralty. Sir Krie flcddes, went to Sand ri n;dia in, here the royal family is staying for the holidays. He was re- i cei veil in audience by the 1 nig on j Christmas, which indiculed that the bu si nes was u it usually u rgent. The ; admiralty changes were announced the j next day. Kalian Towns Bombed. R'j M K, Deo. L'!t. Thirt cen person were killed and sixty others injured when the open city of Padua, in northern north-ern Italy, was bombarded by enemy avi- ; atnrs laM nitiht. the war office an-Jnonnceil an-Jnonnceil today. Treviso, Monte Belluno land Cn-tolf ra i;co were also a'taeked. ; I The art troaurc in the densely populated popu-lated scrtion of Padua, v.-here eight bomb were dioppfd, were not dam- "Thr text of the official statement on the campaign reads: On the whole trout there, was the ii-ual harainu lire, as well as reciprocal patrol activity in the i (Continued on Page Eighteen.) I i