'The names of several British officers, as well as of a number of women and children, appear in a list those missing from the. 10,000-ton Bibby' lier Yorkshire, sunk some days ago by a German U-boat, issued today by the owners of the vessel.
The amicers listed as missing Include: Colonel W. L. E, Reyrolds, the Royal Army Medical Corps; Colonel H. Cornford, of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps: Captain F. W. Beer, of the East Lancashire Re mont, and Squadron-Leade: Thripp, of the Royal Air Force.
The missing, who comprise mostly servicemen and. their families, Me elude also a_number_ of non-com= missioned officers and men of various British units. All the servicemen were being Invatided from India and the Far East.
The "Daily Express" says the U-boat commander who sank the York: shire ordered the captain of the American steamer Independence Hall, which raced to the rescue and picked up 223 survivors, to leave the 100 British soldiers and airmen. on board to drown." The American captain, however, ignored the order, ud most of the mon were saved, with their wives and families, in the Garkness.
Survivors declare that the crow of the Independence Hall_ were incensed atthe rulhlesstess of the German order. The American captain is said to have seen rod, while amen of the crew' ix reported "to shouted: "Til get in this -war weep these xo-and-so's ai the
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