London, June 17.
"At least 23 persons lost their lives when the Great Western Railway cross-Channel steamer St. Patrick was dive-botubed and sunk by enemy aircraft near the end of a trip from Rosslare, in Eire, to Fishguard, in Wales, early on Friday.
Many of those who lost their lives were killed in an explosion when four bombs hit the ship, There were number of injured persons among tke 66 survivors, who included women and children, Most of the survivors were saved through jumping overboard and clinging to rafts until picked up by a warship, merchantships and other craft, The master of the ship and the mate are believed to have been killed, and it ig feared that all first-class passengers were killed except one.
Most passengers were asleep when the steamer was hit. The vessel sank in a few minutes—so quickly that ER there was little chance of lowering boats. All women and children passengers are understood to have been escued.—Reuter. ail open to them by the exigencies of war, was made by Mr. V. D. Savarkar, President of the AllIndia Hindu Mr. Savarkar criticized Mr. Gand-wounds that kept him hi's cult of non-violence, calling it "absolutely sinful.
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