LUSITANIA OUTRAGE.
GERMAN DISCLOSURES. IDENTITY NOT KNOWN. Sun. LONDON. April 18. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail states that the seventh volume of the German naval history of the war has just been issued. It reveals that Captain Schwieger, commander of the U-boat which torpedoed the Lusitania, did not previously know the name of the vessel. This confounds the former official German contention that the Lusitania was torpedoed because it was known that she was carrying munitions. Captain Schwieger describes the torpedoing, and says that there was great disorder aboard the Lusitania. Many boats filled with passengers descended with the stern or bow im the water and were swamped. The ship blew off steam, and the name Lusitania was then seen in gold lettering.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18689, 21 April 1924, Page 7
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125LUSITANIA OUTRAGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18689, 21 April 1924, Page 7
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