NAZI TACTICS
HOSPITAL SHIPS BOMBED AT SHORT RANGE OBVIOUSLY DELIBERATE CRIME. NURSE BADLY WOUNDED AND BOY KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON. June 3. German planes bombed and mach-ine-gunned two British hospital ships, the Worthing and the Paris and the latter was abandoned. The Worthing reached port. Three German dive-bombers bombed tne Haris in mia-cnannei. ihe snip did not contain any wounded, but six nurses narrowly escaped when a bomb hit the davit of a boat in which they had been ordered to leave the ship. One nurse was badly wounded, and a cabin boy was killed. The nurses were hauled back aboard with ropes, whereupon seven more bombers attacked and flew so low that the faces of the airmen were visible. The ship was finally abandoned, but all aboard vyere picked up.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1940, Page 5
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