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CANADIAN DOCTORS AND NURSES
TWO HUNDRED MISSING
"Australian and N.Z. Cable Association! (Received July 2, 3.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 1. The hospital ship Llandovery Caßtle, carrying Canadian doctors and nurses, was submarined on Thursday off Fastnet. Two hundred are missing. (Received July 3, 3.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 1 % The Admiralty reports : The British hospital ship Llandovery Castle was torpedoed at 10.30 at night, on June 28th, 116 miles south-west of Fastnet. The vessel sunk in ten minutes. She was homeward bound from Canada; therefore there were no sick or wounded aboard.
The crew consisted of 164, and the vessel also carried eighty Canadian army medicals and fourteen female nurses.
Of the total of 258, one boatful of 24 has landed. There is a bare possibility of other survivors.
It must bo noted in this, as in all other instances, that a German, submarine had a perfect right to stop and search a hospital ship under the Hague Convention. The eneony preferred, however, to torpedo the ship, whidh showed, ail the navigating and regulation hospital lights.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14646, 2 July 1918, Page 6
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