ITALIAN NAVY
By JOHN H. HEARLEY
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
ROME. August 1.—In the plan of
the allied war the Italian navy has
taken a quietly energetic but powerful
part.
At Italy’s plunge into the European
strife she was assigned the naval task
of patrolling the Mediterranean, the
Adriatic and Aegean seas. The dt*
struction of Austrian commerce, the
protection of allied territory and tm*
working of damage to the enemy
squadrons and soil were her specific
Commissions.
lh direction of the operations, look
ing toward these ends, was put into
the hands of Duke Luigi of the Abruz
zi. Like Cadorna’s, his first act was
the expulsion of politics from his or
ganization. The process made him
some enemies, but it won his country
a really effective arm of war.
Duke Luigi had a fair naval found
ation for the inauguration of Italy’s
war at sea. The latest official statis
tics of the Italian navy show its foot
ing in times of peace, more than two
years ago. The types then listed in
cluded 23 first class battleships, 5
second class, 2 third class, 4 fourth
class, y fifth class and $ sixth class.
The destroyers numbered 44 and the
high seas’ torpedo boats 2S, while
there were 44 first class torpedo
boats, 14 second class and 5 third
class. Twenty-two submarines com
pleted the flotilla.
The entire fleet was manned by 2,
7It) officers, f>,447 petty officers and
73,754 men. However, material in
creases, speeded and augmented by
the war, have since been made in
every department, it is reliably
known. The first class battleships,
the torpedo boat squadron and the
submarines especially have been
strengthened. The addition to the
first are said to number almost h
dozen, including the magnificent
Dante. Cavour and Julius Ceasar.
The Amalfi, a first class cruiser,
was torpedoed during the first days of
the war. The second class cruiser
Garibaldi suffered a similar fate.
Then the Benedetto Bruin, an old first
class cruiser, was wrecked by an al
leged internal explosion. The sub
marine Medusa fell victim to the
enemy later.
The Ancona and several other
Italian freighter anil passenger-car
rying ships have been destroyed. A
t rails port very recently was sent to
the bottom by a shot from a hostile
submarine. All these blows from the
Austrians, generally resulting in
heavy losses of life, spurred the
Italian fleet into retaliatory action.
Care was first given to suffering
Servia. Italy succored the Servians
after their retreat, transporting
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them from the Albanian coast to
Sardinia and Algiers. The transport
tation was fraught with the greatest
danger. Austrian submarines con
tinually attempted the destruction of
the rescuing warships. The Italians
afterward were called on to carry
thousands of Serbian soldiers through
the dangerous waters between Corfu
and Salonika. These reinforcements
greatly strengthened the English and
French armies, preparing an offensive
against the Bulgarians and their
allies.
Months ago the Duke of Abruzzi
was reported to have invited the
Austrian admiral by wireless to come
out and tight. The alleged invitation
has never fully been accepted, it is
said. The main fleet of Austria still
is bottled up at Pola. The movements
of the Italian fleet generally are kept
secret for tactical reasons. But minor j
engagements, in w hich the Italians j
have given a good account of them
selves, admittedly have occurred.
Durazzo waters were where many of ]
these lights were staged.
However, the Austrians, it has been
discovered, have a ready shelter along !
their Dalmatian coast in any naval j
emergency. The Dalmatin shore hast
countless hiding places whose on- j
trances are cunningly mined against
the enemy. It is in striking contrast
to Italy’s eastern coast, which gener
ally is a long, barren stretch of sandy
beach.
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As naval naval policemen of the
western Mediterranean, the Adriatic
and the Aegean, Italy’s lleet in the
main has proved a success, it is as
sented. Italian gunners, who before
the war were ridiculed by
the enemy, apparently are now res
pected by the Austrians. Frequent
reports of the destruction of Austria’s
ships of cargo trickle out from
authoritative sources. Austrian com
merce at this moment is declared to
be practically at a stand still.
Italian submarines frequently steal
into hostile waters with favorable re
sults. One recently penetrated into
the very harbor of Trieste and sank
an enemy transport. The loss of life
among the Austrians is reported to
have been very heavy. All Italy, av
ways mindful of the “unredeemed
lands” wildly applauded the exp’oit.
Kumars of Italy’s new submarine
an whi-uered here. An undersea
boat of new pattern-is said to be now
in use. The Austrians are rumored
to be terrorized by its effective
uniqueness. Some speculators trace
back the mysterious craft to an ex
perimental undersea boat tried out by
the government before the war. This
was the invention of Ilobiola and to a
certain extent resembled the “spider
submarine" of Henry Ford’s later
imagination. It was a one-man craft
cheaply constructed and easily man
aged. High speed, smallhess of size
and lightness were its chief points of
value. Special devices sought to
provide for the constant safety of the
operator.
Airships naturally are now an im
portant adjunct of Italy’s fleet. They
are employed principally to scout and
spy out hostile submarines an 1 war
craft. They are pi rticularly tlu eyes
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