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SPANISH FLAG INSULTED. STEAMER TORPEDOED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, Jan navy 20. The Spanish steamer Donanova, Hying tlhe national flag, and with the Spanish oolonrs painted on lier lrnll, has been torpedoed in the Mediterranean, and had to bo towed into harbour. BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIPSTHE GERMAN ALLEGATION. A SPANISH DENTAL. Router's Telegrams. MADRID, January 251 (Received Jan. 21, at 6.50 p.m.) A semi-official statement denies the allegation of the Cologne Gazette that Spanish officers are serving on British hospital ships in the Mediterranean Sea. As to the statement that these vessels transported healthy troops, it adds: "The Spanish Government affirms tha.t no British hospital ships ~with Spanish officers aboard ever abused our protection or transported troops or war material of any sort."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17218, 22 January 1918, Page 5
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