Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-07-02 | Page 10 | Hospital Ships Are Not Spared

IS HOSPITAL SHIPS ; ARE NOTSPARED Germans Deliberately Plan to Torpedo Any Vessel Regardless Re-gardless of Mission, i LONDON, July 2. That the sinking sink-ing of hospital ships is a deliberate policy on the part of the Germans is 1 J 1 1 1 -T 1 i 1LA I now piaceu ueyuuu nu uuuul mu torpedoing of British ship Llandovery i 'Castle, the newspapers say in tho ed-;' ed-;' itorlal comment today. "In the presence of such unspeak-' unspeak-' able Infamy deliberately repeated," says the Daily Chronicle, "it is a wasto of breath to reiterato tho G-er-iman foreign minister's speech." The Daily News declares tho sink-ang sink-ang of the ship stands out as "one ' of the most horrible incidents in the j hideous story of submarino warfare.' ' I "In no circumstances of tho trage- dy," declares tho Times, "does the story differ from those of other hospital hos-pital ships that have been destroyed. In this caso however, it points, out, thero is an added element of horror in the repeated attempt of tho submarine commander to justify himself by accusations ac-cusations against tho victim and in his wild fury of gunfire and destructive i rushing to and fro among the wreck -I age. it "If these were not attempts to sink all tho survivors and blot out the traces tra-ces of the crime, what was their rao-! rao-! tivc?" I nn