HOSPITAL SHIP
TORPEDOED AND SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN ITALIANS ACCUSE BRITISH PLANES. SHIP MARKED & LIGHTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON.', September 14. An official Italian announcement states that British torpedo-planes on the night of September 9 sank the hospital ship Arno, forty miles from Tobruk, where it was going to embark wounded soldiers. The ship’s identification markings were fully illuminated. A majority of the crew, including Red Cross nurses, were saved, but four sailors and 23 nurses died.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1942, Page 4
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