28 APRIL 1917, Page 2

Details have been furnished this week by the Admiralty as

to the torpedoing on Tuesday, the 17th, of two British hospital ships, the Lanfranc ' and the 'Donegal.' Of the ' Donegal ' twenty-nine wounded and twelve of the crew are missing and presumed drowned, and of the Lanfrane ' thirteen wounded, cne R.A.M.C. staff, and live of the crew. There wore a considerable number of German officers and men on board the Lanfranc,' who seem as a whole to have behaved very badly. They were both cowardly and brutal. Our people, of course, made every effort to save them.