The Penn's Grove record., 1915-05-14

Berlin (via London).-The following
dispatch has been sent by the German
Foreign Office to the German Embassy
at Washington:
"Please communicate the following
to the State Department: The Ger
man Government desires to express
its deepest sympathy at the loss OF
lives on board the Lusitania. The re
sponsibility rests, however, with the
British Government, which, through
it's plan of starving the civilian popu-
lation of Germany, has forced Ger.
many to resort to retaliatory meas
ures.
"In spite of the German offer to
stop the submarine war in case the
starvation plan was given up, British
merchant vessels are being generally
armed with guns and have repeatedly
tried to ram submarines, so that a pre-
vious search was impossible.
"They cannot, therefore, be treated
as ordinary merchant vessels. A re-
cent declaration made to the British
1dTlldluSIt ny IAS L III AAdblOhtoAy wv
rotary in answer to a question by Lord
Charles Beresford said that at the
present practically all British mer'
chant vessels were armed n pro-
vided with hand grenades.
Besides, it has been openly admitted
by the English press that the Lusi-
tania on previous voyages carried
large quantities of wal material. On
the present voyage the Lusitania car
ried 5,400 cases of ammunition, while
the rest of her cargo also consisted
chiefly of contraband.
eff England, after repeated official
and unofficial warnings, considered
herself able to declare that that boat
ran no risk and thus light-heartedly
assumed responsibility for the human
life on board a steamer which, owing
to it's armament and cargo was liable
to destruction, the German Govern.
ment, in spite of it's heartfelt sympa-
thy for the loss of American lives, can
not but regret that Americans felt
more inclined to trust to English
promises rather than to pay attention
to the warnings from the German side.
FOREIGN OFFICE"
LONDON.-The latest figures re-
garding the loss of life on the Lusi
tania are as follows:
Survivors-764, including 462 pas
sengers and 3o2 crew.
Bodies Recovered-144.
Bodies Identified-87, including 65
passengers, % crew.
lnjured-3o passengers and II crew
Passengers Lost-7S8 out of 1880.
Crew Lost-365 out of 667.
Americans Saved-68.
Americans Lost-ProbabIy 1870.
London, May 10.-Among the first
survivors to arrive in London was o
P. Barnard, who had been in America
for six months in connection with q
scheme for cooperative opera. His
wife is a we'll known English singer
Mr.. Barnard has had considerable
experience as a sailor and was to give
q clear account of what happened. He
had finished his luncheon at a quarter
after two, says the New York Sun
and went straight to the veranda cafe
which is at the stern end of the prom
enade deck where he leaned over the
starboard rail, looking forward.
In a moment he saw something
above the smooth surface of the sea
at a distance of from $50 to 200 yards
from the ship.
At first he thought it was a fsh's
tail, but he noticed the water seethine
a little around it, and the idea struck
him that it might be a periscope. II
was then forward of the Lusitania's
bows.
The realization of what it actually
was had hardly crystallized in his
mind when he saw the torpedo start
He glanced at his wrist watch, anG
say that it was exactly twenty-five
minutes after two.
He watched the torpedo's frothy
track until the very moment of i'm
pact.
at seemed to be just trickline
along" he said. at was hard to at
tempt to judge the pace of such a
thing coming toward one, but it seem