WRECK OF THE LUSITANIA.

Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 14

WRECK OF THE LUSITANIA.

TO TH* BDITOIt. Sir, —'flic footnote which you append to the cable on the above presupposes public interest in the above, and you give therein a few details; but it is unfortunate that some more calculated to give a fair and true picture wore omitted. There was, of course, at the

time heated disagreement as to whether the Lusitania carried ammunition contrary to the articles of war, and your footnote rather tends to give the impression that such was not the case; but we have ? however, fortunately for the cause of truth, the statement of one of our own statesmen which should settle the matter. The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P., said; “Included in her cargo was a small consignment of rifle ammunition and shrapnel shells weighing about 17ff tons.’' The New York ‘ Nation ’ of November 20, 1920, divulged that the collector at the port of New York, Mr Dudley Field Malone, testified that there were over 4,000 cases of ammunition on the Lusitania, and the prosecution of R. M. La Follette, who had made this charge, was dropped when this controller of the port of New York offered thus to testify. When the frightful rapidity of the sinking is borne in mind and the captain’s admission of a second report immediately following the torpedo hit, 1 think the real facts of the case are not hard to arrive at. This is not written in a controversial spirit, but in order that these infamous war lies should be laid once and for all.—l am, etc., E.W.F. November 24.