HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK
IN BRITISH CHANNEL. ALL WOUNDED SAVED. Australian and N.Z, Cable Association and Reuter. LONDON, January 9. (Received January 10, at 9.5 a.m.) The Admiralty reports: The' British hospital ship Rewa was torpedoed and sunk in the Bristol Channel at midnight on January 4. The vessel was coming from Gibraltar. All the wounded were saved, but three lascars belonging to the crew are missing. The Rewa was displaying all lights and markings required by The Hague Convention, and was not and had not been within the “ barred zone.”
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Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 6
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90HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 6
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