The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-02
British Hospital
 Ship Ls Sent Down
 ByHunSubmarir1e
Llandovery Castle, on Return From Canada, Is Successfully Attacked By Enemy, Who Does
 Not Recognize Red Cross Sign

Red Cross Sign lC SISTERS LOST ats of the hospital ship Llandovery S, was seen to capsize, according to e drowned.
 submarine, 70 miles from the le 27, torpedoed the 1,000-ton }, which had been chartered by lad been in the service of carry gland to Canada for many her way to England. She had ? 80 men of the Canadian army lrses.
 those on board, including the captain, which came without warning. , of the fighting unit, not a medical of | ficer
 The admiralty report on the sinking de scribes the cruel treatment of Major /! Lyon and declares that the submarine, after sinking the vessel shelled an un- | known target. which the reports indi- cate might have been the missing boats. The captains boat. containing the sur | yvors, was picked up by the destroyer | Lysander, the commander of which has | reported that he had found no trace of 1 the remaining five boats.
 OFFICIAL STATEMENT | The admiralty statement on the sink | ing of the hospital ship follows: | "Germanys awful debt to the world | continues to grow. Another hospital | ship has been torpedoed, this time f2 miles from the nearest land, and her | people turned adrift in their boats to sink or swim, as best they might. <, And although, as it happened, sho was a Canadian hospital ship return | ing from Halifax with no wounded 1 aboard, the tale of crime reveals wanton deliberation on the part of the | submarine commander and almost sus- ] gests the hope on his part that ne | would find her full of injured ano helpless men.
 The Llandovery Castle, R. X. SyI- vester, master, was chartered by the i Canadian government to convey their 1 sick and wounded from England to i Halifax.
 25S ON BOARD
 "The Llandovery Castle had on boar1 a total of 25S persons, including 80 Can ' adian army medical corpsmen and I4 re ! male nurses. One boat, containing IA t: survivors, has reached fort so far. ! Tt was during the night of June 2, to- ! ward i0;39, that the crime occurred. The 1 ship, steaming on her course at some l If knots sne wed the usual navigation and regulation hospital ship lights. Un der the overcast sky she was plain to | see and could not be mistaken for any thing but what she was-a ship immune 1 by every law of war and peace from at 1 tack or melestaton,
 No one on board saw the wake of the l torpedo. The first intimation of the | presence of g submarine was a jar ani l the roar of explosion from aft. Then the lights went out.
 "All that followed, save when a dim light was obtained from an emergency l dynamo. just before the ship foundered, | took place in the darkness. The engines were rung once to stop, then full spee1 l astern. But from the engine room came ! no answer.
 The rehearsed routine of the ship 1 however. held good. With the German enemy, one must be prepared for every l emergency like this, and along the dark l ened decks the crew groped to the boat l sta tion and stood by for orders to leave | her,
 Prom the, bridge the captains mega phone, loud in the night, bade them | hold until all were off the ship. The carpenter vas aft making an examna- ton of the damage
 l Tn the wireless cabin the Marconi oper- ator was trying in vain to transmit the ships position. His key gave no re- l sponse; the spark was gone
 "The carpenters report was that No. 4 hold aft was blown in and that the | ship could not remain afloat. The order was given to lower away the boats on 1 botli sides and abandon ship.
 The officer commanding the Canadian i army medical corps on board reported that his people were out. This is in- 1 portant in view of the fact that no boat but the captains has been picked up.
 ORDER WAS GOOD Save for any of the ships company or
 the engine room crew who may have been killed by the explosion of the tor pedo, it is clear that everyone got away. One of the small boats, called accident boats was held back for those last to leave the ship But when all the others were away, the captain went to his cabin for an electric torch and, on re turning to deck, found that this also had gone.
 The submarine hailed the boat in English: Come alongside it ordered
 The boat was putting down to pick up a drowning man The second officer /! stood up and shouted back: We are ] picking up a man from the water.
 Come aongside, repeated the brusque voice from the submarine. The boat held on it's way and forthwith two ! revolver shots were fired at or over it.
 "'Come alongside or I will shoot my 1 big gun shouted the submarine com 1 mander The boat lay alongside the sub marine and the captain (probaby the man picked up) was ordered on board ! In case he should be made prisoner and l kept on board, he gave the second officer, ! who remained in the boat the course to steer He was then taken to the con ming tower of the submarine, where two l officers awaited him.
 
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