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Object description
whole: the title is positioned across the top, in red. The text covers the reaminder, in blue and in red. All held within
a blue border and set against a white background.
image: text only.
text: COLD-BLOODED MURDER!
REMEMBER GERMANY'S CROWNING INFAMY
THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA, WITH HUNDREDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Germans have wantonly sacked Cities and Holy Places.
Germans have murdered thousands of innocent Civilians.
Germans have flung vitriol and blazing petrol on the Allied Troops.
Germans have killed our Fisherfolk and deserted the drowning.
Germans have inflicted unspeakable torture by poison gases on our brave Troops at Ypres.
Germans have poisoned wells in South Africa.
Germans have ill-treated British Prisoners.
Germans have assassinated our Wounded.
THESE CRIMES AGAINST GOD AND MAN ARE COMMITTED TO TRY AND MAKE YOU AFRAID OF THESE GERMAN BARBARIANS
The place to give your answer is THE NEAREST RECRUITING OFFICE
ENLIST TO-DAY
PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON. - POSTER NO. 97.
PRINTED BY ROBERTS AND LEETE LTD. LONDON. W. 2464/446.
Physical description
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No. 97.
W. 2464/446.
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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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