ANOTHER HOSPITAL SHIP OUTRAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 186, 6 August 1918, Page 5

ANOTHER HOSPITAL SHIP OUTRAGE.

123 WOUNDED DROWNED IN TORPEDOED WARILDA.

(Received 10.30 a_n.)

NEW YORK, August 5. Another British hospital ship, the Warilda, has been torpedoed by a German submarine while returning to England from France with wounded soldiers.

The vessel sank within a few minutes of being rtruck, and 123 of those aboard were either drowned or kißed by the explosion.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

The Wanlda was a steel twin-screw vessel of 7713 tons registered. She ZLft?' St a?, 1 ? W a. Bem ° re "d Co. Ltd., at Glasgfw, and was owmed toy the Adelaide Steamship Company. Her dimensions were: Length, th™ £ l f ? dept ? I 4"" *" waa ■ n ™- i --* ° n tb *- Australian coast when the war broke out, but was commandeered, first a* a transport »* then as a hospital ship. r Germany began, her "frightfulness" against hospital ships in 1916, the first to 'be 6unk being the Russian ship Rostingal, which was sunk without warning in the Black Sea on March 30, 85 being drowned. This was followed four months later by the sinking of another Russian hospital ship, the Vperiodi, 7 being drowned. On November 21, 1916, the hospital ship Britannic was sunk by the enemy in the Aegean, and 50 of those aboard were drowned. On the following day in the same sea, the hospital ship Braemar Castle, with wounded aboard, was sunk with loss of life. "> . In January, 1917, the German Government, on the false pretext that British hospital ships were toeing used for tbe transport of combatants and munitions, announced that submarines would sink them in the war zone. In accordance with this threat the 'hospital ship Asturias was torpedoed by the enemy with 900 on board, when 89 people, including one woman nurse, were killed. On March 30 the hospital ship Gloucester Castle was torpedoed, no lives being lost. On Anril 17 the Lan franc was torpedoed, and in her 34 persons perished, among- them 15 Germans. On the same night the Donegal was sunk with 41 killed or drowned. On May 26 last year the Dover Castle was twice torpedoed and sunk on the second attack, six of the crew being drowned. On January 14 this year the Glonart Castle was torpedoed in the Bristol Channel, 20 being drowned, and on June 27 last came the crowning infamy, the Llandovery Castle being torpedoed 116 miles from land, with the loss of 234 lives, the submarine charging through the wreckage in order to overturn the 'boatloads of survivors.