SUBMARINE OPERATIONS
THE HESPBBIAIT CAUSE OF DESTRUCTION PROVED SUNK BT GERMAN SUBMARINE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 21. Iteplying to the semi-official statement from Berlin that it was practically impossible for a submarine to have sunk the Hesperian as no submarine was in the locality the Press Bureau states that undoubted proof exists that a German submarine sank ships on Ith and fith September, north and south of the spot where the Hesperian was attacked. The. explosion was. of the torpedo type, and the agency by which the ship was sunk was conclusively proved by a fair-sized fragment of a torpedo, now in the Admiralty’s possession, picked uj) on the Hesperian before she sank.
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Southland Times, Issue 17533, 22 September 1915, Page 5
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115SUBMARINE OPERATIONS Southland Times, Issue 17533, 22 September 1915, Page 5
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