The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-29
81 ARE KILLED ON
HOSPITAL ship.
THE AsTURlAs SUNK BY susMA.
RINE WITHOUT WARNING.
TWELVE PERSONS MISSING
Survivors are Landed at Village on
the Shore of an Unnamed Es-
tuary, and are Supplied
With Clothes, Etc.

| London, March 2S.-The survivors
of the Asturias were landed at viii
lage on the shore of an unnamed es-
tuary. AS many as possible of the sur
vivors were supplied with clothes and
wraps, but the village wardrobes were
soon exhausted and quilts and blan-
kets were called into service.
The refugees said the torpedo which
sank the hospital ship struck near the
stern. One of the woman nurses on
board said:
I'VE had no warning of any kind
and we thought that hospital ship
would be sacred even tothe Germans.
OF course we had heard threats to the
contrary but the thing seemed SO ut
Iterly barbarous that l dismissed it
from my mind. When the Asturias
was attacked she was blazing with
Hight and easy to identity"
1t is assumed by the press that the
sinking of the hospital ship Asturias
will be met with prompt reprisals, in
accordance with the declaration is
sued by the British foreign office at
the end of January, when the German
threat to sing hospital ships was made
Oh the allegation that such vessels
were being USED as transports.
The British hospital ship Asturias
was officially announced today. Thirty
enc persons were killed and twelve
are missing.
The German admiralty announced
the sinking of the Asturias.
/ The statement says:
"The British hospital ship Asturias,
while steaming with all navigating
lights and with all proper distinguish
ing Red Cross signs visibly illuminate
ed, was torpedoed without warning on
the night Of March 90 The following
casualties occurred. Military dead IL,
missing 8, including one female staff
nurse, injured, II; crew. dead 20, with
8 missing including first stewardess;
crew, injured %.
THE torpedoing of this hospital ship
is included in the list of achievements
claimed by U-boats as reported in
German wireless press message.
Two Destroyers Sunk.
London, March 28-Two British tor
pedo boat destroyers have been sunk.
one by striking mine and another
after a collision with steamer, it is
officially announced today.
The admiralty statement reads:
"A British destroyer recently struck
e mine in the channel and sank. Four
officers and II men were saved.
Another of these vessels sank to-
day after collision with steamer.
One man was lost There were no 9TH
err casualties"
Predicts Greater Losses.
London, March 2S.-Losses of mer-
chant vessels amounting to more than
100000 tons thus far in March have
resulted from war measures of the
central powers, Lord Charles Beres-
ford said in the house of lords today
In a debate on the British blockade
Lord Beresford said that with longer
days and calmer weather the losses
would increase and that the public
ought to have the facts brought home
to it. The number of vessels destroyed
thus far this month was given by him
az 255.
Lord Beresford expressed the opin-
ion that captures of submarines by the
British were not at all equivalent to
the new submarines the Germans were
launching. He believes the Germans
had more men and more food than had
been immagined in England.