Sotercely had Count Bernstorff handed his recent Note to the
American Government promising that " liners " (whatever that may mean diplomatically) should not be torpedoed with- out warning and without providing for the safety of the passengers (unless the "liners" should attempt to escape) than a grim commentary was supplied on German sincerity. management, or internal disunion, as the case may be, by terrible violation of the promise. The Allan liner ‘Hesperian; when outward bound for Montreal, was torpedoed in the dark without warning a hundred and thirty miles west of Queens- town last Saturday evening. It is true that no one saw a German submarine, and this fact of course makes room for the suggestion that the ship may have been blown up from within or—much more. improbable—that she struck a mine. The captain of the Hesperian,' however, has no doubt that his ship was torpedoed. He says that he saw fragments from the torpedo fall on the deck.
