21 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 2

The Union-Castle liner Galway Castle,' outward bound for South Africa,

was torpedoed and sunk on Thursday week, two days ,after leaving port under wort. The enemy submarine was not seen. Most of the thousand people on board, mostly invalided soldiers -and women and children, were rescued by our patrol vessels. Unhappily. two of the ship's boats were .upset in the rough sea. A hundred- and twenty passengers and thirty-four of the crew are missing.