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THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR. VICTIMS OF THE LUSITANIA

... THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR. VICTIMS OF THE LUSITANIA. The inquest was resumed at Queenstown on Saturday on the victims of the Lusitania disaster. District Inspector Armstrong deposed that 220 bodies had been brought into Queenstown, that 1,145 lives were ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A SPLENDID SHIP

... SHIP. The Lusitania was built at Clydebank, outside Glasgow, by the firm of John Brown and Co. In 1907 the North German Lloyd steamers had secured the North Atlantic record with a ship reaching the epeed of twenty-three knots. The Lusitania attained ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP

... bereaved and sympathy with the Cunard Company. ADMIRALTY WARNING TO LUSITANIA. In the Housce of Commons on Monday, Mr. Churchill, in reply to several questions as to the sinking of the Lusitania, said that the Board of Trade had ordered an inquiry into the ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PIRATES’ RECORD WEEK

... PIRATES’ RECORD WEEK. As was to be e?ected, in view of the sinking of the Lusitania, the Admiralty statement issued on Friday of the shipping losses sustained during the previous seven days shows a record figure in gross tonnage destroved. Within the ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCENES IN LONDON

... news 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 215 this afternoon.” Before long the offices of the Cunard Company in Palmerston ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 439 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SOMERCOTES

... sweetest ever eard in the Palace. Lusitania Victims.—We have been informed that Mrs. W. Meadows, of Nottingham road, Somercotes, has lost her mother, two sisters, a brother in-law, and two nieces in the disaster to the Lusitania. They were coming to Eng- Jand ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A MELANCHOLY TRIP.”

... newsboys ©7¢ buwling the loss of the Lusitania, but the vuers focking o the Transylvania declined credit the report. A few became so scared, however, that they left the vessel and returned to New York. Details of the Lusitania disaster wore not made known generally ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TWO TORPEDOES

... angel .m&.,.a. it impossible to get away the boats on that side. 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 hoard to be saved. Even when ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 916 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BRIGADIER-GENERAL WOUNDED,

... the relief force, and received the medal and clasp. - e A SURVIVOR OF THE LUSITANIA Mr. D. A. Thomas, the well-known Welsh mineowner, who is one of the survivors of the Lusitania disaster, is in his sixticth vear. He was educated at Cliftoa and Cambridge ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PRESIDENT WILSON’S NOTE TO ] GERMANY. President Wjiloo—_n:—.m_'h_)‘(}arml_q‘y‘oq the

... PRESIDENT WILSON’S NOTE TO ] GERMANY. President Wjiloo—_n:—.m_'h_)‘(}arml_q‘y‘oq the sinking of the Lusitania was published on Friday, the chief points made are: Submarines cannot be used against merchantmen without the violation of many sacred principals ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PIRATES POOR WEEK

... 173, as against the record haul of 47,564 tons made by the pirates in the preceding week, which included, of course, th Lusitania. In addition to the two hig steamers, four fishing vessels were sent t the bottom during the week. The wholesale sowing of ...

Published: Friday 28 May 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 6 | Tags: none