THE SEA MURDERERS
' ATTACKS ON HOSPITAL SHIPS (Bee, April 29, 7.15 p.m.) London, April 28. On Maroh 14 lust the Admiralty announced that the hospital ship Guildford Castle, homeward bound, was unsuccessfully attacked by u submarine at tho entrance of tho Bristol Cliannol on tho evening of March 10, vhilo (lying lied Oixtss flags, and with all hospital lights on. Tho Admiralty now statos that inquiry lias shown conolusively that the Guildford Castlo was struck by a torpedo. Of two torpedoes discharged, the. first missed and the second hit, but happily did Jiot explode. Tho Admiralty also quotes a. German wireless official of April 2*l, which, in the course of challenging the British figures regarding the shipping losses, says: "These ignore hospital ships anu other shipping spaco which was particularly exposed to, and attacked by, Ü-boais."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-lieuter.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 189, 30 April 1918, Page 5
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138THE SEA MURDERERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 189, 30 April 1918, Page 5
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