On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 20, 22 September 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

u STEAMER LINKMOOR TORPEDOED United Press Association. (Received 9 a.m.) London, September 21. The steamer Linkmoor was sunk. The crew were saved. WAR BY THE SUBMARINE. Berlin, September 20. A wireless message states that the Hesperian and Ordnna incidents are (regarded as settled. Everything now depends on the Arabic, wherein the J whole question of the submarine camipaign is involved. Count Bernstorff announces that he dias arrived at a complete understanding with 'Mr Lansing. London, September 20. Replying to the semi-official statement from Berlin that it was practically impossible for a submarine to have sunk the Hesperian, as there was no submarine in the locality, the Press Bureau states that undoubted proof exists that a German submarine sank ships on the 4th and sth of September north and south of the spot where the Hesperian was attacked. The explosion on the Hesperian was of a torpedo type, and this is conclusively proved by a fair-sized fragment of a torpedo which is now in tlie Admiralty’s possession, and which was picked up on the Hesperian before she sank.