SUBMARINE WAR.
THE ASTURIAS CASE RED CROSS IGNORED. _ . (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received 11.20 p.m., March, 28th. " LONDON, March 28. The Admiralty reports that the Bit tish( , hospital . ship Asturias, wlieri steaming with all navigation lights and all distinguishing Red Cross signs brilliantly illuminated, • was torpedoed without warning on the night of the 20th. The military' casualties Were eleven dead and three missing, including a female staff nurse, and seventeen were injured. The crew 1 casualties were twenty dead and nine missing,; including a stewardess, and twenty-two injured. The torpedoing of this ship is claimed as an achievement for the U boats' by a German wireless Press message: THE SALONIKA FRONT AN ENEMY CLAIM. (Australian and N.Z. Cable "Assn. : and Router.) Admiralty—Per Wireless P^ess. , Received 6 p.m., March 28 th. • LONDON, March 27. German official.—Strong. French advances north-west of; Monastir failed. FRENCH CAPTURE "WOOD. ENEMY ( ATTACK BROKEN. (Australian and N.Z. fcable Assn. and' Reuter.) Received 8.55 p.m., March 28th. French communique. l —We captured | a, quart it of a mile of trenches in the! direction of Coest and Cernenastena The Italians supported by our artillery broke' an attempted Bulgarian attack.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16231, 29 March 1917, Page 7
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