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WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP

... somebody call, There's a torpedo. Running to the port side, he saw the wake of the missile as it struck his vessel. The Lusitania heeled over and began to sink. Ile remained on the bridge to the last, and went down with hit ship about eighteen minutes ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LUSITANIA SUNK. TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING OFF IRISH COAST. APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE

... LUSITANIA SUNK. TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING OFF IRISH COAST. APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE. By sinking without warning the great Cunard liner Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale on Friday afternoon a German submarine has committed the most infamous outrage of ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TWO TORPEDOES. SISRVITORS' STORIES OF THE DISASTER

... angel which made it imposeible to get away the boats on that aide. Yet even when it began to dawn on the passengers that the Lusitania was doomed, there was still hope that she might float long enough for all, or nearly all, on board to be mad. Even when it ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1424 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WILFUL AND WHOLESALE MURDER

... vessel 11118 rtruck. He knew threats had been made to t9rpedo the steamer. In reply to the coroner, Captain Turner said the Lusitania was not armed. Asked what precautions he took in view of the threats that had been made, Captain Turner stated that all the ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CAPTAIN OF THE LIISITANIA

... CAPTAIN OF THE LIISITANIA. The Lusitania was under the command of Captain Turner, who wadi temporarily taking the place of Captain Dow, Captain Turner is well known to Atlantic travellers. His career has been remarkable. Starting life in the humble capacity ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE SINNING OF THE LUSITANIA

... THE SINNING OF THE LUSITANIA. Proudly she sailed none thinking of death. O'er a calm and peaceful sea, he Lusitania! Her name now rings o'er earth. A call to those who are free. Jo warning they gave, but the Pirates vile, Laid wait ! Their murderous work ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GERMAN WARNING

... under the British Bag did so at their own risk. The notice, which was intended particularly to apply to passengurs by the Lusitania, read as follows: Traveners intending to embark on an Atlantic vo7age are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SCENES IN LONDON

... of the disaster was made known in the City by the following message posted at Lloyd's: — The Admiralty report that the Lusitania was sunk off the Old Head of Kinsale at 2.15 this afternoon. Before long the offices of the Cunard in Palmerston Bishop ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

W ANTKO, esperieseed &I 37. Derby street, Leek. . • --•- - - - . WISIRE N 'TING Wort, Spe

... perpetrated. This was at the beginning of the war. What will the end not have seen? Last week there was the torpedoing of the Lusitania, a cowardly and outrageous crime that has filled the civilized world with horror. It was murder upon the high seas on a vaster ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1052 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SPEECHES IM MARKET PLACE

... had been on a recruiting march round the district, and be had told the people of the Germans and the awful crime of the Lusitania. The Germans did not care what they did if they could only beat England. It was their goal, and they anticipated what a grand ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1546 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BRIMS' RECORE WEER

... fllbmarines, the gross tonnage totaling 47,584. The greater part of this figure is accounted for by the e 2,500 tons of the Lusitania. The highest previous weekly figure since the commencement of the submarine blockade was that reached between March 24 ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ARMY OF MUNITION WORKERS

... body of a baby, about six months did, picked up at sea, was landed at Queenstown by a trawler. It is undoubtedly • of the Lusitania crime. The facility for cheap tramway fares London County Council school children under fourteen (hitherto limited to single ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1915
Newspaper: Leek Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 7 | Tags: none