ANOTHER NAZI OUTRAGE
HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK BOMBED BY AIR SQUADRON (Rec. 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 10. The sinking of the British hospital ship Talamba by a German air squadron two miles south of Syracuse, Siciiy, is reported in a delayed despatch from the correspondent of the Associated Press aboard a British cruiser. The Talamba went down with nurses, wounded, and the crew crying out in the darkness for help. Several ships went alongside for rescue operations in spite of a continued threat from the air. The Talamba, in compliance with international law, was brilliantly lighted. With two other hospital ships, the Talamba had spent the afternoon unmolested picking up wounded from Sicily, but at 10 p.m. a formation of German planes flew over, dived straight for the Talamba, and released their bombs. The other hospital ships extinguished their lights when they saw the Talamba’s fate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25301, 11 August 1943, Page 3
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