ANOTHER LINER TORPEDOED
NEAR THE GRAVE OF THE . ARABIC VESSEL STILL AFLOAT ALL ON BOARD SAVED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 5. The Allan liner Hesperian. (10,920 tons), bound from Liverpool to Montreal, was torpedoed off Fustnet (near the south-west coast of Cork), at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday. The .liner is still afloat, and lier complement of 750 passengers and 250 of a crow ibave been saved,- several steamers assisting in the work of rescue. , , Later.. It is now believed that the Hesperian carried 30 first-class passengers, 117 second-class, and 200 steerage. The steamer is being towed to Queenstown, twenty of the crew remaining on board. Her two forward holds are full I of water. The Hesperian was torpedoed without warning near the bows. An explosion injured twenty passengers ..and a number 'of the crew. A Canadian soldier, who was . blinded in France, entered a boat,' which capsized. While swiniming, he discovered that the shock had restored his eyesight. He is overjoyed.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2560, 7 September 1915, Page 5
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162ANOTHER LINER TORPEDOED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2560, 7 September 1915, Page 5
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