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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 May 1915, Page 5

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TWO MORE VESSELS TORPEDOED

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AMERICA'S NOTE TO GERMANY

THE LATTER'S REPLY PREDICTED

LONDON, May 20. • The steamer Dumfries, torpedoed off Pembroke, was not sunk. The crew was saved.

The trawler Lucerne was sunk by a submarine off Rettray Head. Eleven of the crew were saved.

COPENHAGEN, May 20. A fund has been started at Madgeburg to give a testimonial to the submarine which .sunk the Lusitania.

LONDON, May 20. Messages through neutral countries predict Germany will not accept President Wilson's demands, but courteously and firmly reply justifying the sinking of the Lwsitania and declaring there was only one torpedo, the second explosion occurring among war munitions. The Lusitania would not have been sunk unless she was carrying explosives. Germany throws the responsibility on England, and also on the American authorities for permitting passengers on board a vessel loaded with explosives. Germany declares that she will persist and not change, the blockade, hoping America will understand the necessity for this.