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Show Date Of Lusitania On May 7, 1915, the Cunard ocean lined "Lusitania" was torpedoed by a German submarine sub-marine off the coast of Ireland, bound for Liverpool from New York. THE reaction in America had much to do with this country's entry into the war, against Germany, two years later. Though the German Government took out a newspaper news-paper advertisement in many U.S. papers warning Americans not to travel on ships bound for England, these were widely disregarded. disregard-ed. Eleven hundred and fifty people perished in the sinking. |