London, June 4.
While escaping from a British hospital ship bombed by German olanes off the French coast yesterday nurses in a lifeboat were machinegunned.
The ship's officer said: "As the women jumped into the lifeboat a raider swooped down and machine-unned the helpless women. One nurse had her arm shattered and the others were bleeding from the face."
—Reuter.
Last-minute efforts to restrain Signor Mussolini were redoubled dur-[ing the last few days, it was learned. But all who spoke to Il Duce met with "a stubborn resolve" to "Let guns speak," as the Fascist leader himself put it.
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