THE LUSITANIA.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 10 May 1915, Page 2

THE LUSITANIA.

Torpedoed off the Coast of Ireland.

PKKSS A SSOCIATION COPYKIGHT. [Extraordinary], The following extraordinary cables were received on Saturday morning. New Yoke, May 7. The Lusitania carrying 1300 passengers was torpedoed and sank off Kinsale, Ireland. Assistance has been sent. A despatch printed here says the Lusitania has been beached and passengers and crew are safe. , Later. It is stated that it is now uncertain whether all have been saved. Sunk in Twenty Minutes. Washington, May 9. Mr Gerard has been instructed to enquire if Germany is responsible for the Lusitania's loss, and if so details are wanted. When informed that the Lusitania had been sunk President Wilson refused to comment. The State Department admitted that a tremendous sensation would be caused throughout the United States if American lives were lost.

It is reported 600 American and 279 Britishers were aboard. The first and second officers, 67 of the crew including four stewardesses were saved, together with Captain Turner, who stack to his ship till the last, bat was ultimately rescued.

The many passengers included Chas. Erohman, theatrical manager, Hugh Lane, Dr A. Thomas The Coal King, Lady Mackworth, Stackhouse (the explorer), Rev. Basil Matnrin, Mr and Mrs J. C. Mackay (Aucklanders), Chas. Klein (playwright), Justus Miles, Forman (author) Alf. G. Vanderbilt, Chas. Bowring and Elbert Hubbard and the Company, recently touring America with “ A Pair of Silk Stockings.”

Of the rescued passengers 22 have died from exposure.

Count Bern stoft' from Berlin announced that if the Lusitania was disarmed then Germany was not advised of the fact.

The Admiralty denies that the Lusitania carried guns. On the London Stock Exchange several German members were thrown out of the building, and in New York public indignation is growing in intensity.

(Received May 10, at 10.45 p.m.) New Yoek, May 9.

Bemstoff’s warning cabled on the 2nd re-appeared in the newspapers. Many at Washington received letters from officials in Germany, asserting that Friday was the day fixed for the destruction of the Lusitania.

Amsterdam, May 9.

German newspapers state as the Lusitania was armed it was impossible for the submarine to rescue passengers.

Paris, May 9.

Shoninger, ex-President of the American Chamber of Commerce, when interviewed said the Chamber would consider reprisal by boycotting all German goods.

Simla, May 9.

The nse of gases has caused indignation throughout India, but the Lusitania outrage has roused indescrible feelings of horror. Received May 10, 11.30 a.m. London, May 9.

Joint Davis, a member of the crew reports the Lusitania made a splendid voyage to the coast reducing to half speed near Fastnet owing to the fog. Then it increased to sixteen knots and full speed was rung for. At 2.5p.m. the vessel zigzagged and the explosion almost immediately, struck bunker. All the divisions were rent and the coal scattered in all directions. The ship finally stood on end, dived like a duck, her boilers exploded and her funnel was outblown.

The inqnest on one of the Lusitania victims opened at Queenstown. The coroner remarked: It was a case of a powerful warlike engine attacking an unarmed passenger vessel without warning. The inquest was adjourned. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, in issuing an appeal for a relief fund, says that tbe staggering news of the pre-arranged murder of Hundreds of innocent passengens is am unprecedented shock. The ■whole civilised world stands dazed and horror-stricken before the stupendous atrocity. The news of the monstrous, dastardly crime knocks at the heart of every individual.