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Show lusitania. On May 7, 1915, the Cunard ocean liner "Lusitania," bound for Liverpool from New York, was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. The reaction in America had much to do with this country's entry into the war against Germany two years later. IT WAS based on the British Bri-tish claim the ship wasn't carrying munitions, which only recently we have learned was not true. 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. SUCH sinkings were commonplace com-monplace by American and other submarines in world war II. |