Show Reprisals Expected for Hospital Ship Sinking By Associated Press LONDON March 28 It It la is assumed by th the press that the tho sinking of or tho I hospital ship Asturias will bo be met with wide prompt reprisals in accordance with the declaration issued by the British foreign office at the end of or January when the German threaten to sink hospital ships was made on the allegation that such vessels easels were being be be- beinE being ing inE used as an transports ports The Tho form that the reprisals may take tako has not been indicated officially but tho time suggestion was then made t that at several of ot tho time highest ranking officers of or II fivers among tho the German prisoners should bo be carried on all ull hospital ships shies I Tho ho survivors of or tho A Asturias said sald that the torpe torpedo o which sank the tho hospital hos boa pital ship struck near the stern storn and I almost missed Ono of the woman nurses on board who was attached to the British field hospital in Serbia Serbin said d I Wo We had no warning of or any kind and wo we thought that a hospital ship would be he sacred even oven to the time Germans Of Ot course courso we had heard beard throats threats Jo to o tho tiro contrary but the thing seemed so 50 utterly barbarous that I dismissed It from my mind We Wo sailed through the ha bay of or Biscay without fear and without trying to avoid detection When the tho Asturias was attacked she was blazing with light arid and easy to Identify |