THE LUSITANIA MEDAL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 8

THE LUSITANIA MEDAL

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—As to v.-hether the so-called Losstania medal is a myth or not is a matter of evidence—not mere assertion. As a . piece of definite evidence, I ventare to draw attention to the following extraes from "My Four Years in Germany*' (pa^» 229), published by Mr. James W. Gerrard, the United States Ambassador to Germany, during the first two and a tail years of the war. * "The Government allowed medals to be struck in lioiiocr of each little general who conquered a Wsr — Yon Emmich, conqueror of Liege, etc—a perniciou3 practice, as each general zrA princeling wanted to continue tlis tbtet until he .could get his face on a mscd— even if no one bought it. But tie cEelsi was reached when medak celebrarinz xb? sinking of the Lusitania were said ihssszkivut Germany. Even if the sinking oi -n^> Lusitania had been justified, onlj- ose tcs» has lived in Germany since the T*£r azi understand the disgustingly hvi lusts which can gloat over the death of wo=E2 and babies/ .It will be noted that It. Gerrard ttes actually in Germany at the time, aai fc seems inconceivable that anyone in ik position would put the matter into ce3d print if he were not sure of" his facts.— 1 am, etc., GEO. W. BAELTEOP.