Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — TWO HOSPITAL SHIPS SUNK [ARTICLE]

TWO HOSPITAL SHIPS SUNK

German U-Boats Attack Ships Flying the Red Cross. London, April *23.—The British hospital ships Donegal and Lanfranc with many wounded aboard, have been torpedoed without warning. They were sunk on April 17. Of those on the Donegal twentynine wounded men and twelve of the crew are missing. The Lanfranc carried German wounded as I well as British. ’ Of those aboard nineteen British and fifteen Germans are believed to have perished. The admiralty statement says the Lanfranc carried 234 wounded British officers hnd men, 167 i wounded German prisoners, a medical persoiinel of fifty-two and a .crew of 123. The missing, who are presume.d to have been drowned, include thirteen British, one ( membe/ of the medical corps, fifteen Germans and five of the crew. ! “One hundred and fifty-two German prisoners were rescued by British patrol boats at the imminent risk of being themselves torpedoed,” says the statement.