It is with deep indignation that we record one of
the very worst outrages of the war, the sinking of the British hospital ship ' Asturias,' a vessel formerly belonging to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, on the night of March .20th. The ship of mercy was destroyed while sailing with all navigation lights and with all the proper distinguishing Red Cross signs brilliantly illuminated. No warning was given. The list of casualties is a heavy one. Eleven members of the R.A.M.C. are reported killed, three missing, and seventeen injured. Of the crew, twenty were killed, nine ara missing, and twenty-two were injured. Among the missing are two women, a staff nurse and a stewardess. The torpedoing of this hospital ship is characteristically included in the list of achievements claimed by the ' 13 ' boats as reported in tho German wireless Press. It should be stated that before the Asturias' sank she had landed nine hundred sick eases.
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