HOSPITAL SHIPS SUNK
PIRATES' NEW CAREER OF CRIME SIX LIVES LOST The High Commisioncr reports:— London, May 29, 9 pjn The Admiralty announces:—"The British hospital ship Dover Castle was torpedoed without warning at 6 p.m. on Saturday last in the Mediterranean. At 8.30 p.m. sho was again torpedoed and sunk. The whole of the hospital patients and tho staff wore transferred to other ships. The crew also was saved, except that six are missing. The <irmed mercantile cruiser Hilal'.V was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea. Four persons were killed by the explosion. ■ A British destroyer has been sunk hy a collision; no casualties are reported." ALLAYING GERMAN UNEASINESS. London, May 29. _ As a counterblast to Mr. Lloyd George's statement on tho submarine position, the German Government has issued a lengthy statement designed to reassure the people.—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5
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138HOSPITAL SHIPS SUNK Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5
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