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OFF COAST OF SICILY LIGHTED BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP DELIBERATE GERMAN CRIME (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, August 10. The .sinking of the British hospital ship Talamba by a German air squadron two miles south of Syracuse, Sicily, was reported in a delayed dispatch from an Associated Press correspondent aboard a British cruiser.
The Talamba went down with nurses, wounded and the crew crying out in the darkness for help. Several ships went alongside for rescue operations in spite of a continued threat from the air.
The Talamba, in compliance with international law. was brilliantly lighted. With two other hospital ships, she had spent the afternoon unmolested picking up wounded from Sicily, but at 10 p.m. a formation of German planes flew over and dived straight for the Talamba and released their bombs. The other hospital ships extinguished their lights when they saw the Talamba’s fate.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1943, Page 3
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