ATTACKS ON HOSPITALS.
NEARLY 1000 CASUALTIES.
LONDON, June 10 In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Anderson asked how many members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps had been killed or injured abroad.
Mr. Macpherson, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, replied that eight had Iven killed, one had died of wounds, and 10 had been injured. Mr. Joynson-Hicks: How often during the past three weeks have the German? bombed British hospitals on the north coast of France, and what are the casualties ?
Mr. Macpherson replied that Field-Mar-shal Haig recently reported that from May 15 to Juno 1 hospitals had been attacked on seven occasions, and the total casualties in these raids were Killed: 11 officers, 318 men, 5 sisters, 8 \V. A.A. 6 civilians. Wounded: 18 officers, 534 men, 11 sisters, 7 W.A.A.O 'a 73 civilians. The total was: Killed, 348wounded, 643. ' '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16881, 20 June 1918, Page 6
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