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Show F k T TI ST 0 1 9 E flflfc Constantinople, May 2. O despatch has been recehed here from Tunis saying that the Italian 'battleship Reumberto has been driven by a storm on the rocks and sunk at a point on the coast near Zara, The foregoing despatch from Constantinople Con-stantinople has not been confirmed from any other source. The battle-Bhlp battle-Bhlp Re Uraborto has been engaged In convoying landing expeditions undertaken un-dertaken by Italloa troops to Tripoli, Built in 1887 tho Re Umberto carried car-ried 700 men. She was four hundred feet long, 77 feet wide and drew 2S ' feet of water. Her armament included includ-ed four 12-lnch guns. |