GERMANY'S LATEST.
ATLANTIC DECLARED A WAR
ZONE
LONDON, May 2. Count Bernstorff has issued a warning that the Atlantic must be regarded as a war zone, but this has not produced the slightest alarm at Ldverpool, where shipowners describe it as another sample of German bluff. There is no likelihood of any curtailment of sailings as the result of such a threat. Advices from New York state that the Lusitania sailed amid excitement due to the newest manifestation of Bernstorff's flagrant disrespect for American neutrality. Amongst the numerous telegrams received at the pier signed by obviously fictitious names declaring that the liner would certainly be torpedoed, Alfred Vanderbilt destroyed liis without comment. The Cunard Company allowed none of the 1310 passengers by the Lusitania to cross the gangway until their credentials had been presented WASHINGTON, May 2. A German advertising campaign ha 3 been started throughout America in the Press, warning passengers of the risks of crossing the Atlantic owing to submarines. The State Department refuses to suppress the advertisements, no precedent existing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20345, 4 May 1915, Page 6
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