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Object description
whole: the title is positioned across the top in red, with the main text placed below, in two columns, in black. A
subtitle, in red, is applied at the foot of the design. All are set against a plain white background and held within a narrow red
border.
image: text only.
text: REMEMBER THE LUSITANIA!
One mother lost all her three young children, one six years, one aged four, and the third a babe in arms, six months old. She herself
lives, and held up the three of them in the water, all the time shrieking for help. When rescued by a boat party the two eldest were dead.
Their room was required on the boat, and the mother was brave enough to realise it. 'Give them to me, my bonnie wee things. I will bury
them. They are mine to bury as they were mine to keep.'
With her hair streaming down her back and her form shaking with sorrow, she took hold of each little one from the rescuers and reverently
placed it into the water again, and the people in the boat wept with her as she murmured a little sobbing prayer to the great God above.
But her cup of sorrow was not yet completed. For just as they were landing, her third and only child died in her arms.
BERLIN, MAY 3.
Hundreds of telegrams have been sent to Admiral von Tirpitz congratulating him.
ARTICLE IN COLOGNE GAZETTE.
The news will be received by the German people with unanimous satisfaction, since it proves to England and the whole world that Germany is
quite in earnest in regard to her submarine warfare.
ARTICLE IN KOLNISCHE VOLKSZEITUNG. [Translation: Colonge People's Newspaper]
With joyful pride we contemplate the latest deed of our Navy and it will not be the last.
NEW YORK, MAY 8.
Riotous scenes of jubilation took place last evening amongst Germans in the German clubs and restaurants. Many Germans got drunk as the
result of toasting 'Der Tag.' [Translation: The Day]
ENLIST TO-DAY.
PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON. - POSTER No 95.
PRINTED BY ROBERTS AND LEETE, LTD., LONDON. W. 2598/449
Physical description
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No.95.
W 2598/449.
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The sinking of the British passenger liner RMS Lusitania was one of the most controversial incidents of the First World
War.
On 1st May 1915 the Lusitania set sail from New York bound for Liverpool, with over 1,900 passengers and crew on board. Six days later a
German submarine, the U-20, sank her as she approached southern Ireland. 1,200 lives were lost, including 128 Americans, causing outrage in
both Britain and America.
In her defence, Germany argued that the Lusitania was carrying supplies of ammunition and also cited American press warnings discouraging
travel on Allied ships. Nevertheless President Woodrow Wilson issued an official protest and there were anti-German riots in American
cities. Meanwhile British propaganda capitalized on the incident (see PST 11782, PST 11803, PST 11821 and PST 11856), portraying it as an
act of German barbarism.
Though America remained for the time neutral, the sinking of the liner caused a significant hardening of opinion against Germany, which
eventually led to her entry into the First World War, in 1917, on the side of the Allies.
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IWM: ART: 15914(28)[deleted]
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