Remember the Lusitania ... : it is your duty to take up the sword of justice to avenge this devil's work. Enlist to-day /
Great Britain.Parliamentary Recruiting Committee,issuing body.
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Text continues: "The jury's verdict says: 'We find that the said deceased died from their prolonged immersion and exhaustion in the sea eight miles south south-west of the Old Head of Kinsale on Friday, May 7th 1915, owing to the sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania by a torpedo fired without warning from a German submarine.' 'That this appalling crime was contrary to international law and the conventions of all civilized nations, and we therefore charge the officers of the said submarine, the Emperor and Government of Germany, under whose orders they acted, with the crime of wilful and wholesale murder before the tribunal of the civilized world.' It is your duty to take up the sword of justice to avenge this devil's work. Enlist to-day."
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Great Britain
Lusitania (Steamship)
World War, 1914-1918
War posters
World War, 1914-1918
Propaganda, British
Propaganda, Anti-German