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Show HUuiliAL 5nli Sisters of Charity, Doctors, Invalids In-valids and Men Go Down in Black Sea. Petrograd, April 1, via London, 7:30 a. m. The sinking of the Russian hospital ship Portugal In the Black sea is thus described in a dispatch received from M. Goulebeff, delegate general of the Red Cross with the Caucasian army: "At S:30 last night near Shatle our hospital ship Portugal, at anchor was sunk by an enemy submarine which fired two torpedoes from a range of sixty yards After the second torpedo tor-pedo the ship sank in less than a minute. "Trawlers and a torpedo boat rescued res-cued eleven of the twenty-six sisters of charity who were aboard. They also saved three commanders, Including Includ-ing the French commander Duvent and two doctors, one priest, 125 men of tho Russian medicals corps and thirteen men of tho French crew. "The missing Include Count Tatls-cheff, Tatls-cheff, delegate of the Red Cross, a doctor, the senior Sister of Charity, Baroness Meyerendorff and fourteen ether Sisters of Charity, flftyo men of the Russian medical servlco and twenty-nine of tho French crew. "According to the commander the Portugal had 273 persons aboard of whom 158 were saved. On receiving news of this outrage I proceeded to the spot and Interviewed tho survivors surviv-ors at tho Red Cross hospital on shore. "The Portugal carried the usual Red Cross signs prominently displayed." |