THE BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP ASTURIAS, WHICH WAS SUNK BY THE GERMANS, THUS ADDING ANOTHER DASTARDLY ACT TO THE HUNS’ APPALLING LIST OF CRIMES. The Germans, who regard the Hague Convention as a “scrap of paper,” have given effect to their brutal threat that they would torpedo hospital ships, and since November 21, 1916, have torpedoed without warning the British hospital ships Britannic Braemar Castle, Gloucester Castle, Asturias, Salta, Donegal, La France and Dover Castle. The Asturias was sunk on March 26, 1917, despite the’ fact that all the proper Red Cross distinguishing marks were brilliantly illuminated. Forty-three persons were killed and thirty-nine injured. This was not the first occasion on which the Asturias had been attacked when engaged in her work of mercy as earlier in the war a German submarine discharged a torpedo at her.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1415, 7 June 1917, Page 16

THE BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP ASTURIAS, WHICH WAS SUNK BY THE GERMANS, THUS ADDING ANOTHER DASTARDLY ACT TO THE HUNS’ APPALLING LIST OF CRIMES. The Germans, who regard the Hague Convention as a “scrap of paper,” have given effect to their brutal threat that they would torpedo hospital ships, and since November 21, 1916, have torpedoed without warning the British hospital ships Britannic Braemar Castle, Gloucester Castle, Asturias, Salta, Donegal, La France and Dover Castle. The Asturias was sunk on March 26, 1917, despite the’ fact that all the proper Red Cross distinguishing marks were brilliantly illuminated. Forty-three persons were killed and thirty-nine injured. This was not the first occasion on which the Asturias had been attacked when engaged in her work of mercy as earlier in the war a German submarine discharged a torpedo at her.