The hospital ship “Asturias” has been torpedoed (London, March 28). The attack took place at midnight. The torpedo struck the quarter and damaged the rudder, thence went into the engine room damaging the machinery and extinguishing the whole electrical illumination. The vessel had landed nine hundred sick and those on board consisted of the crew, members of the Army Medical Corps and a number of nurses. The distress signals were answered by a patrol boat which towed the “Asturias” in and several boats with survivors.
