THE LUSITANIA.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 May 1915, Page 3

THE LUSITANIA.

New iork, May 9

Oouut Uernstorff's warning, cabled on the 2nd, lias reappeared in the newspapers. Many people at Washington received letters trom officials in Germany asserting that Friday wao fixed as the day on which to destroy the iLusitania. Amsterdam, May 9.. German papers state that as the I/übitania was armed it was impossible for the submarine to rescue any of her passengers. l J ari6, May 9. Mr Shoninger, ox-President of the American Chamber of (Jommerce, interviewed, 6aid that the Chamber would consider reprisals by boycotting everything German. London, May 9. John Davis, a member of the crew, said the vessel had a splendid voyage to the Irish Coast. The vessel was reduced to half epeetT near Fastnet owing to a fog, and then it was increased to sixteen knot© and full speed was rung for at about 2.5 p.m. The vessel zigzagged and an explosion took place almost immediately. Tt struck the bunkers and all the divisions were rent and coal scattered In all directions. The ship finally stood on end and dived like a dnck. The boileru exploded and a funnel was blown out. Simla ,May 9. The use of gases caused much indignation throughout Tndia. but the sinking of the Lusitania has roused an indescribable feeling of horror. An inquest on one of the victims has been opened at Queenstown. The coroner remarked that it -was a case »f 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 for the survivors, says that it is staggering news and a pre-arranged murder of hundreds of innocent passengers. It has caused ijn unprecedented 6nock and the irhole civilised world stands dazed and horror-stricken before the stupendous atrocity. The monstrous and dastardly crime knocks at the heart of every individual.