In the Adriatic south of Pole, last Sunday morning, two
Italian motor-boats torpedoed two of the largest Austrian battleships and damaged an Austrian destroyer by a depth-charge. The hero of this extraordinary feat was Commander Luigi Rizzo. He con- trived to pass unobserved between two of the escorting destroyers. They opened fire immediately afterwards, but by a lucky chance they missed him. Before they could correct their range, he had sent two torpedoes into a battleship. A destroyer tried to rtin him down, but he threw out a depth-charge, the explosion of which put his adversary out of action. Midshipman Aonzo, in the other motor- boat, with equal luck and daring, crept up at the rear, torpedoed the other battleship so that she heeled over, and made good his escape. The Austrians admit the loss of one battleship.
