On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

FRENCH HOSPITAL SHIP TORPEDOED. SIBTERS OF CHARITY MURDERED JJJmtm Pmisi AMocunow.l Paris, April. 1. A German submarine in the Black Sea torpedoed the Messageries Company's steamer Portugal, which was being used as a hospital ship. One hundred and fifteen people are missing from the Portugal, including fifteen Sisters of Charity. TWO TORPEDOES AT SIXTY | YARDS. THE SAVED AND MISSING. | ' LOSS OF 121 SOULS. j (Received B*s a.m,) : ' I ■ Petrograd, April 2.'" M. Golubeff, a Bed Cross official, says: The, Portugal was in the act of anchoring when a submarine fired two torpedoes at a distance of sixty yards. The second one struck the engineroom and the Portugal sank in less than a minute. : Lifeboats from the trawlers; and a torpedo-boat rescued eleven Sisters of Charity, two doctors,-a priest, 125 members of the Russian Naval Medical Corps* and thirteen of the 'French crew, out of a total aboard of 273. | The missing include Count - TaiistIcheff (Red Cross delegate), Baroness Meyendorfty fourteen Sisters'of Charity, fifty of the: Russian NaYal Medical Corps, and twenty-nine of the French crew.- ,• e.\ : :. The Portugat had-a red cross, on. each side and fiew> the. Red Cross Flag. . '. ■; '-•"■ There are a few wounded among the , survivors. GERMANY TO NORWAY. NORWEGIAN VESSEL SUNK; Christiana, April 1. Germany has notified Norway, denying that a German submarine sank the Silius. The Norwegian steamer Memento has been sunk, and a sailor -was drowned. " ;■

ARCHANGEL PORT. Copenhagen, April 1. The ice in the White Sea is beginning to melt and- it is expected that Archangel port will about the middle of April. . ?-.• MARCH LOSS Of SHIPPINC. 62,532 TONS :: 124 LIVES* . (Received 10.38 a.m.) ■ ■ ■:■ : Londohy April 2. \ The Board of states*that the enemy sank thirty-eight'■ißritisli ships in March of a tonnage of 62,532, and with the loss of 124 lives.