On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6, 6 September 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

ALLAN LINER TORPEDOED. jit.oi l i. i .i FATE OF THE HESPERIAN.;, ■ * ! t... i - .. , J*! i I! f! > *•>*. „! . ..0 i.l’.iLi-L-, ■ . 11 1 I.lli i, NINE HUNDRED,' SQUjh& ABOARD i o 1 1! •• ' ,| ‘ ll !' 1 —;! ~i. ~i •r ! -•■••..lf > l -rcrONiTEh Press' - h © ;•• -iir • •’ • i . • i -1.. H (l ,v M /-.(Received 11.15 a.in.) • i (, ‘' ;J 4 *jWWIW 5. The Allan liner Hespman' was torpedoed off the Fastnet,- with passengers numbering nine! hundred' and the " v L-. 1/ , crew. t 1 ,r AT I mini hit iT m .|-nr- ■ ? jC.ir •■'.■■!-L t;i;)| APPARENTLY, BfyED n( juvioon v ■•" n. iihu ’•* V ,n(Received Tlj.,3Q;a.(p.) ,:/ v ; \ t|J 3 . i'M ■'Londbr|, ,£jnpt,emh ( ev r , }( .; The Hesperian’' 1 was bound from Liverpool 'to 'Motiifeal, and was torpedoed at 8.30 o'clock op Saturday night. She carried seven‘hundred phssengers and 250 of a crew. ».*• Several steamers assisted! in rescue work. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Copenhagen, September 4. The wrecked submarine El 3 has been towed to a dockyard. She is a total wreck, and hen hull is perforated with shells. Hei 1 wliitc ensign is still fluttering on ith© shot-scarred staff. She has been* interned. A Berlin wireless quotes a Danish newspaper as declaring that the Moltke, which was reported as sunk in the Riga f battle v |has been seen cruising near the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal. London, September 4. Official: The Royal Edward’s mi-s----ing, and believed to have been drowned. include; First Lancashire Fusiliers, 27; Second South Wales Borderers, 56; First Border Regiment, 59; Second Hampshire, ll ; First Essex, 176; Army Service, Corps,: 123; Army Medical Corps, ILL