WAR ON HOSPITAL SHIPS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3054, 16 April 1917, Page 6

WAR ON HOSPITAL SHIPS

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(R«c. 'April 14, 3.10 p m.) _,\ , , London, April 13. The Admnalty states that the hospital ship Gloucester Castlo (7994 tons) was torpedoed without naming in mid- "* Coannel on tho night of March 30-31. All the wounded ,weie saved. —Ans.N.Z. Cable Assn.-Router. ' ' ' HOSPITAL SHIP SALTA MINED (Rec. April 14J 3.10 p.m.) London, April 13. The Admiralty states:—"The hospital ship Salta (7284 tons) was mined and sunk in bad weather in the Channel 'oh Tuesday. ..There wore no wounded men on boaid, but five medical officers, nine nureing sisters, and thirty-eight of tho R.A.M.C. personnel are missing."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.- , .Reuter. . . ' i , MAGNIFICENT WORK BY MEDICAL I .; STAFF. There were 450 wounded men on j , board the Gloucester Castle. The doctors and nurses did magnificent work '-in, saving the wounded. They calmly and methodically lemovod the patients to the' Tipper decks, and thence to the rescuing, boats; There was' no semblancs of panic, an ( d the best traditions -of the Army medical service we're splendidly, maintainea.' The, torpedo struck the ship at three o'clock in the morning. A large number of craft of every desciTpTion quickly answered the wireless call for help, the patients suffered little from their' distressing experience. . The ciew on deck distinctly saw the submarine/ They agree that no warning was given.' -Many of the engineroom staff Tvero badly scalded. The Salta, which was a converted French liner, was outward bound for France.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The Gloucester Castle,was , a steel twin-screw steamer, o,wn'ed by the Union Castle Mail Steam Ship Com- ■ pany, and was built in 1911. The Sulta ■was owned by the Admiralty, and was ) ■ also built in 1911.] GERMANS ADMIT THE CRIME. \ (Rec. April 14, 3.10 p.m.i London, April 13. An official report from Berlin on Wed'■nesdsy proclaims the fact that the vessel was sunk by a submarino, thus removing all doubt in the.matter.-—Aus-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.