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SUBMARINE WARFARE.
SINKING OF THE HESPERIAN
WHAT AMERICAN NAVAL
EXPERTS HAVE FOUND.
WASHINGTON, October 2.
Mr. Robert Lansing, the American
Secretary of State, announces that
American naval experts have found, at
her the closest investigation, that the
Allan liner Hesperian, with the loss of
some American. lives, was, beyond all
doubt, sunk by a torpedo, and that
Germany will be immediately informed
of the fact, with a request for an explanation
in view of her repeated assertions
that the Hesperian struck a
mine off the south-west coast of Ireland,
and was not torpedoed by a German
submarine.
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