. The story of the Great War; history of the European War from official sources. Complete historical records of events to date ... Edited by Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill [and] Francis Trevelyan Miller . male nurses, ofwhom 153 were reported as missing. This was the second at-tack on the boat, the first one having been made on March 1,1918, in the channel. She was then full of wounded fromFrance, all of whom were saved while the vessel itself was takento harbor and repaired. The Glenart Castle was formerly known as the Galician and was previous to the war owned bythe Union Castle Com
. The story of the Great War; history of the European War from official sources. Complete historical records of events to date ... Edited by Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill [and] Francis Trevelyan Miller . male nurses, ofwhom 153 were reported as missing. This was the second at-tack on the boat, the first one having been made on March 1,1918, in the channel. She was then full of wounded fromFrance, all of whom were saved while the vessel itself was takento harbor and repaired. The Glenart Castle was formerly known as the Galician and was previous to the war owned bythe Union Castle Company. She was the seventh British hos-pital ship torpedoed at night and without warning. During February, 1918, too, the British S. S. Minnetonka of13,528 tons was sunk in the Mediterranean. Previous to thewar she had been a well-known passenger liner of the AtlanticTransport Line, running between New York and London. Another large steamer which became the prey of submarinewarfare was the Celtic, torpedoed off the Irish coast on April 1,] 1918. However, she succeeded in reaching port in safety. Spanish ships were continued to be sunk and on April 11,1918, it was announced that Germany had begun a submarine. NAVAL WARFARE 463 blockade of Spanish ports as a result of a commercial treatysigned between Spain and the United States. On the same day Uruguay asked the German Government,through the Swiss minister at Berlin, whether Germany con-sidered that a state of war existed between the two inquiry was the result of the capture by a submarine ofa Uruguayan military commission bound for France. One of the largest German submarines appeared, on April10, 1918, in the port of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia; on thewest coast of Africa, after having seized the day before thesmall armed Liberian vessel President Grant. The crew weretaken prisoners and the boat sunk. Liberia, it will be remem-bered, had declared war against Germany on August 4, G
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