4 MAY 1918, Page 2

The Admiralty announced on Tuesday that it had obtained proof

of the fact that the hospital ship ' Guildford Castle' was deliberately attacked by an enemy submarine on March 10th in the Bristol Channel—well within the zone where Germany had promised to respect hospital ships. Two torpedoes were fired at the ship. One missed her ; the other hit her amidships but did not explode. The Admiralty quoted from a German wireless message of April 24th a statement in the Deutsche Tageszeitung specifically including hospital ships among the vessels " particularly exposed to and attacked • by the ' '.boats." It is obviously useless to make agreements with such people as the rulers of Germany.