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Show IAN ECHO OF A GREAT CRIME In the Delaware, n er, n Wednesday, a lifo jacket was picked up adrifl, anl distinct mi I hf vji f-licitcn canvas was the name of the tr.rpMoc.l IjUmI am. i Tins is a reminder f thai awful digastfei of five yean ago when that might) Bhip, with its great patsengei iit of thoussncs, including WOmcn and children, went down off ttic south const o- ireland When tin Germans a1 home beard of tii- torpedoing, thej held cslebrationfl and had a wcrk of merry making, neve for a moment sfeinj,' the eBOnnit of the crime or the direful consequences of their atrocity. Simons, the historian gives the sinking of the Lusitama as one of t ho most contributory i auses to the d feat f the kaiser, and declares that the degree of 6tupiditj which Bandtioneu the outrage is alnuiht unparalleled in the councils oj b'iij nation With wonderful foresight in bo many ways with brillianl nun in charge of the preparations Ebi the war and the conduct of the same, the Germane fell far short in one thing They ux:Gerestimated i ti i heroic qualities of their adversaries, and tins lack oj appreciation of the other fellow was in nothing more clearly shown Than in the atrocities committed for the purpose of breaking down the morale of those who fought against t hem The busitania was one of the first appalling blunders. Accompanying Accom-panying that brutality were the aii raids over English cities, which, instead of adversely affecting England s re.solw to hatlie on drought every Englishman to his feet, determined to fight to sue death Simons recalls that in the early stages of the war American - sentiment was in favor of this conntrv keeping out of the conflict, viewing the struggle as the culmination of loii ycau of quarrel and jealous rivalry in Kurope. There as m erious thoug-1 at thai time of America becoming involved and none dared to sngges; that evcnl ually armed forces would cross the sea Hut with the destruction of the Lusitama public conscience received a shock and gradually the neutrality was changed to a pro-allied sentiment anv, tht-n jto the militant mili-tant spirit, and finally the nation, in abhorrence of the m ttioda of the authors of the Liisitania massacre went into the war am' transported over two million soldiers across the seas The echo of the husitanm disaster will be heard centuries from now |