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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HESPERIAN A FACER FOR GERMANY By OVdoerarih—Press Association—CJoiiyrtslit (Rec. October 31, 4.15 p.m.) _ r ' Washington, October 30. 'Mr. Robert Lansing (United States Secretary of Stato) has announced that the American naval experts have found after the closest investigation that the liner Hesperian beyond all doubt was sunk by a torpedo. Germany is to be immediately informed of this faot, with a request for an explanation, in view of her repeated assertions that the Hesperian was not torpedoed. [The Germans asserted that the Hesperian bad struck a wandering mine, and that none of her submarines was in the vfdinitji of the liner .when she ,was sunk.]
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2607, 1 November 1915, Page 5
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111PROOF POSITIVE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2607, 1 November 1915, Page 5
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