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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16895, 6 July 1918, Page 3 (Supplement)

This picture is of great interest in view of the torpedoing of the British hospital ship Llandovery Castle by the enomy in the Atlantic Ocean on June 27. She was homeward bound from Canada, and therefore had no sick or wounded on board. The crow numbered 164, and the vessel also carried 80 Canadian Army medical men and 14 nurses. Of the total of 258, one boatful of 24 landed, and there is a bare possibility of other survivors. The drawing depicts the sinking of the Glenart Castle early this year, when of 182 persons on board, including the crew, only 29 were saved. The seven medical officers and eight nurses, forming the complete R.A.M.C. staff, were all lost, possibly drowned. As the Bishop of London said: "The.cries of the drowning nurses will echo in our ears for ever, and will brand us as a nation of cowards if we ever cease to strive that such appalling wickedness may be made impossible for all time." —Graphic.