INTENSE PUBLIC INDIGNATION IN AMERICA.
GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN EMBASSIES GUARDED. (Received May 10. 2 a.m.)
Washington, May 8.
Public indignation regarding the loss of the Lusitania is growing in intensity. Extra police protection has been provided around the German and Austrian Embassies. '
Count Bern&torff, German. Ambassador, announces that if the Lusitania was disarmed before her destruction Germany had not been advised of the fact.
SITUATION STATED TO BE VERY GRAVE.
"HIGH PITCH OF EXCITEMENT."
(Received May 10, 2 a.m.)
London, May 8.
Reports from "America regarding the loss of the Lusitania state that, despite President Wilson's appeal for coolness, high officials declare that the situation is very grave. Public opinion is rapidly reaching a high pitch of excitement.
The press comment in the bitterest terms on the supineness of the Government * the face of an appalling disaster. Indications are growing of an outburst against the Germans.
Many Canadians have been lost in the ship, and there are few citieß in the Dominion which have not been visited by bereavements.
The New York Tribune asks if the nation, which remembered the Maine, will forget the Lusitania.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15913, 10 May 1915, Page 9
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