Saddest Disaster of All.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 13 May 1915, Page 2

Saddest Disaster of All.

Big Steamer ' Lusitania,'

With 1,500 Lives of All Nations

SENT TO THE BOTTOM. THE meagre and sudden news of the torpedoing of the leviathan passenger steamer, Lusitania, carrying over 2,000 souls all-told, from New York to Liverpool, threw the whole populace into dumbfounded indignation with prayers for the God-Almighty's vengeance upon the Kaiser and his assistant murderers on Friday last, and for the time being, almost throwing into the shade the sorrows of many families made sad by the losses of their New Zealand and Australian boys in the late plucky engagement on the Dardanelles.

About 1,000 innocent li^fe were sent to the bottom o# Jtty south coast of Ireland without warning. This is the new fiendish mode of warfare with which England cannot grapple —perhaps America, who is a heavy loser both in valuable lives and property can. • The dastardly deed has caused wideworld indignation, with the exception of Germany, who is gloating over it, and says—- " just what the British deserved." But let us all fervently pray that " The Day " will come. The result ofthein,quest on the Lusitania reveals but little information. One gets many short accounts and experiences through the daily papers from survivors, suffice to say.that the verdict is— " Wilful and wholesale murder against the Kaiser, the German Government, and the submarine crew,"