THE HESPERIAN SUNK.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144778, 7 September 1915, Page 3

THE HESPERIAN SUNK.

CREW SAFELY LANDED. GERMANY NEARING HER LAST MEN, ITALIAN GENERAL ON WESTERN CAMPAIGN. Tie Hesperian was not brought to port as was suggested in a late cablegram on Monday. She sank, but owing to the calm sea few lives were lost. Germany is reported to, be recruiting boys and old men, but, as she looks well ahead, it would be unwise to expect an immediate shortage of men at the front. An Italian military expert who recently visited General JofEre, quite approves of the delayed activity on the western front, and thus supplies a reply to the Petrograd dispatch to an Italian paper demanding speedy action there. General Joffre and Lord Kitchener happily are not likely to be moved to any action except that which seems best to them from a military point of view.