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Show Austrian Air Squadron I Attacks Maritime Ar- I serial at Yenke. I MANY AIR BATTLES I Three Austrian Machines I Missing After Fight I With Italians. I 1 VIENNA, via London, Aug 15. Four tons of bombs wore dropped by airplanes Tuesday morning on the Maritime arsenal at Venice, causing a number of conflagrations, according to the official statement of the Austrian war office. The announcement follows: "In the Italian theater numerous air encounters occurred over the Isonzo Tuesday. Five enemy aviators were brought down. As a reprisal for tho last aerial attack on Pola, a large num-bcr num-bcr of airplanes attacked the Mari-time Mari-time arsenal at Venice early Tuesday morning. "Notwithstanding weather condi-tions, condi-tions, strong gunfire and the enemy's defending aviators, ours met with very good success. We observed from IH a low altitude good hits by heavy and light bombs of which four tons were dropped. Conflagrations were ob- "Three of our airplanes are missing. The enemy torpedo unit retreated be-fore be-fore our flotilla which covered the av-iators av-iators and enemy bombs were dropped unsuccessfully on this flotilla and Par-enzo Par-enzo (a seaport of Austria-Hungary in Istria)." |