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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1744, 19 February 1920, Page 5

In 1016 there wore 72,000 divorces grunted in the United States, the record among civilised nations being surpassed only by Japan. Tbo belated publication of tbo result of Lord Mersey’s Lusitania enquiry confirms what a great many people have suspected (says London Truth). Had Captain Turner folloived the Admiralty wireless instructions there was every reasonable prospect that the ship would have made port safely. Instead lie trusted to his own judgment, declined to zig-zag, and permitted the foghorn to proclaim the vessel’s whereabouts as she approached the land. But it must bo remembered that this was in the earlier days of the war, when the mercantile marine nursed its traditional prejudice against being taught anything by the Royal Navy services” learned a much be tor attitude towards one another before the hostilities finished.