LUSTANIA CRIME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8210, 6 August 1915, Page 4

LUSTANIA CRIME.

QP! NIONS 0 F LEAD ING ENGLISH- - •'■ •■• ' ■■'■ MEN; ; , ;';.:;.' . . /■ There .sl'Olds to bo. no expressionstrong enough or adequate to convey the intense indignation which everyone,- ---| outside- of Germany, must .feel' at this f cowardly' outrage: It is impossible. 'to-• crystallise into a phrase what tlie world. thinks of the 'abominable' and Horrible' crime. Let us hope that before long . the perpetrators, high and low, .will: receive their deserts.—Sir Charles.-.^ Johnston, Lord Mayor of London. This-colossal crime will stain, forever, the reputation of its perpetrators.*-^ Bishop of London. Regarding the Lusitania, I foretold. I the present situation in an interview [last February.—Sir Charles Beresiojd. .

It it> impossible to find words to express one's condemnation at the dastardly methods which have been resorted to by the Germans, and their wanton, cold-blooded barbarism as exhibited in the case of the Lusitania must emphasise, if that were needed, the necessity-for tho stern Dot measures of reprisal available. —Lord Mayor, of/ Liverpool. L s I desire to send my heartfelt sympathy, in which all Cunard directors and managers join, to relatives and friends of the American passengers murdered by the Gorman .submarine. I am certain tho whole civilised world is as one in its grief for the sorrow and suffering caused and in loathing forthis treacherous attack on innocent lives, so many of whom wero women., and children. Every possible step is being taken to relieve tho immediate wants oi tho survivors at Queenstown after their terrible experience.—A." A. . Booth, Chairman of Cunard Company. What shall it profit a nation to gain the \\ hole world and 10-o her own soul ? Germany by poisoning the s»ir and water and destroying non-com-batants h;>h committed suicide as a great Power and become only ji groat scom^e. —Israel ZangwilJ. Ainei ii-i is tho best judge of her own duty. The policy of poison and murder will be avenged by us. —Sir A. Conan Doyle.

Countless lidos will ebb and flow over the Lusitania before America and England will forgot their dead or forgive the authors of their sorrow, ami the cry, ".Remember the Lusitania," will ring from tho Atlantic to the '■ Pacific coast. ] f so, once again good- • will come from evil.—Carl yon Bellnirs, M.P.

There is no deed of infamy the Germans will not commit and glory in. We cannot ho surprised 'at their destroying the LusitaniV or any other crime. They are the criminals of Europo unmasked and let looi,e.—General kSir Alfred Turner.

When, three years ago, Iho Titanic was sunk by an iceberg and many hundreds of pn'cious lives wore lost., a great cry from the "heart of humanity • went up to God asking why the blind and merciless powers of nature had ' boon, penniijvl ( (o overwhelm His- „ children. VfArei-dav, of r.iflicc' aforo- '- thought, deliberately, wantonly, tho Lusitania was sunk by a submarine, mam' liundrods of innocent lives were lost, and the crime which mm committed against man was wilful murder. What Giv.'iL Britain and tho Allies have to say of this murder is being said to-d:iv in shot and shell. What has America to say of it-—America as a nation ? American widows and orphans are weeping, thi- ixorld is waiting—and listening.—T3u)l Caino.