From "Hesperus" (Noon Edition).
SWIFT ADVANCE OF THE ENEMY.
WAR COUNCIL MEETS.
HORATIUS TO HOLD BRIDGE-HEAD.
CAN THE BRIDGE BE DESTROYED IN TIME?
The Secretary to the Senate announces:
"The War Council met at the River Gate immediately on receipt of the news of the fall of Janiculum. It was decided to accept the offer of Port-Captain HORATIUS (S.P.Q.R.'s Own), SPURIUS LARTIUS (Ramnian Regt.), and HERMINIUS ("Titian Toughs"), who gallantly volunteered to hold the bridge-head in order to give time for the bridge itself to be destroyed. All hope of saving the town should not therefore be abandoned."