NEWS IN GERMANY
ANNOUNCEMENT IN COLOSSAL TYPE. COPENHAGEN, May .8. Berlin telegrams print in colossal type the news of the Lusitariia's destruction. They regard the use of the torpedo as a new triumph of German naval , policy. The general impression is that England has got what she deserves. CONGRATULATIONS TO VON tirpitz. ; COMPENSATION FOR AMERICAN LIVES, AMSTERDAM, May 8. The "Cologne-Gazette," in deprecat- . ing the drowning of , non-combatants, | says England will doubtless make a terrible cry about the so-called barbarous warfare; but she will say nothing about the great quantity of war material for the Allies which was on board the Lusitania. Moreover two. 12-ceritl-metre guns were mounted on the vessel/ A Berlin telegram states that Grand Admiral von Tirpitz has received huh-! dreds of telegrams him . upon his success. The German-newspapers regard the' sinking of the Lusitania as Germany's answer to the destruction of Von Spee's squadron. They, say nothing about the deaths of the Americans; but,some hint that if any of the, latter were lost Germany will :bo only too glad to compensate the relatives.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 10 May 1915, Page 5
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