10 AUGUST 1918, Page 2

The ambulance transport Warilda; carrying six hundred seriously wounded -men,

was torpedoed and sunk in mid-Channel early last Saturday morning Over a hundred of the wounded were drowned,, as the torpedo struck the ship near their ward. Mrs. William Long, Deputy Chief Controller of Queen Mary's Auxiliary Artey Corps, who wee in charge of a detachment of women, was drowned. The -total -casualties were one hundred and twenty-three out of a ship's company of over eight hundred. Fortunately the vessel remained afloat for some time or the loss of life must have been far greater.