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Show NO EXCITEMENT 'IN WASHINGTON OVER DISASTER WASHINGTON", Sept. 6. Nothing in todav's advices regarding the sinking cf the Allan liner Hesperian served to f) hane the waiting attitude of the American government. Judgment is suspended pending complete information,, informa-tion,, and in spite of the statement of the Hesperian "s captain that his ship was the victim of a German torpedo ?nd he had no warning, officials here are not disposed to question the good faith of recent unqualified assurances from the German government that her submarine commanders had been ordered or-dered to attack no more liners without warning. Reports during the dav from Embassador Embas-sador Page at London added few details to the story told in the brief cablegram in which Consul Frost at Queenstown last night announced that the vessel bad been torpedoed with a loss of about eight lives, none of them Americans. The consul 's statement that the ship carried on her stern a 4.7-inch gun went unamended, though the Allan line offi-tials offi-tials have declared that she had no gnn when she left Montreal. Proof Impossible. News that the crippled Hesperian had foundered while being convoyed toward Queenstown dissipated the hope that an examination of her hull might prove bevond a doubt the nature of the wrecking wreck-ing explosion. The fact that the vessel was struck forward when well outside the zone in which the German submarines subma-rines usually operate, has caused some veteran naval officers here to advance the theory that she struck a drifting mine. It is pointed out that Consul Frost reported that while the British admiralty believed the ship was torpedoed torpe-doed without warning, there had been no official announcement to that effect, ef-fect, and that, none of the accounts of the disaster speak of a submarine being righted. This being Labor dav, a legal holiday, all the government, departments were closed. President Wilson and Seeretary Lansing received copies of Embassador Page's dispatches, however, and read carefullv all newspaper reports from London and Queenstown. It is understood under-stood that thev think some word will come from Berlin as soon as it is possi hie for the German government to determine de-termine whether one of its " T" ' ' boat? was responsible for the attack, aDd if so. under what circumstances. |