HOSPITAL SHIP ORDEAL
Survivors Machine-gunned On Shore LONDON, April 30. The Norwegian Telegraph Agency reports taht Professor Freyberg, who was in the hospital ship Brand IV when it was bombed, said there were about 30 aboard the ship and it had been on its course for an hour when some German bombers came toward it and dropped bombs. The men in the aeroplanes must have seen the large red crosses on her. The bombers left and returned again and the ship was then hit. Two men standing beside him were killed and the explosion smashed all. the glass in the ship. The vessel ran aground, and when they had escaped ashore they had to take shelter behind rocks for about an hour while aeroplanes machine-gunned them.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 184, 1 May 1940, Page 9
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126HOSPITAL SHIP ORDEAL Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 184, 1 May 1940, Page 9
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