20 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 15

We greatly regret to record the loss of the hospital

ship Anglia,' which struck a mine in the Channel on Wednesday. Of the thirteen officers and three hundred and seventy-two men on board, about three hundred were saved. Another vessel coming to the rescue was sunk by another mine. What could be more moving than such a disaster to such a veseel P That the wounded, suffering in their cots (many of them scarcely able, for all their pluck, to bear the least strain or jolt) should be the victims of explosion and sudden wreck, and be projected into the sea, or dropped, with the inevitable roughness of speedy rescue work, into boats, hardly bears thinking of. The heartfelt sympathy of all Englishmen is roused in a special degree, not only for the brave dead, but for the survivors.