The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-08
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OVER 1000 PASSENGERS OF LUSITANIA DEAD
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destroyed in accordance with the Ger man war zone decree.
 This warning, published as an ad- vertisement did not result in the can cellation of single passage, nor did anonymous notes of warning, said to have been received by some passengers just before the big liner left tho pier here, deter anyone from sailing.
 Reports from Washington that ir was privately known in official quarters that the Lusitania was to be torpedoed at the first opportunity gave color 10 the opinion expressed in shipping cir cles tonight that the embassy's warn ing was intended to apply particularly to the Lusitania
 Travellers intending to embark on | ,he Atlantic voyage" read the adver- tisemert, "are reminded that a state | of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her | allies; that the zone of war includes | the waters adjacent to the British | .sles: that in accordance with formal notice given by the imperial govern ment, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain or any of her allies are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war gene on ships of Great Britain or her al- lies do so at their own risk" Friends Besiege Offices All this afternoon and tonight anx- ious friends and relatives of the Lusi- tania's passengers besieged the Cunard offices and the scene recalled those when the Titanic sank three years ago.
 Among the well known passengers on the Lusitania are Alfred Gwynle Vanderbilt Charles T. Bowring Of New York head of the firm of Bowring Brothers; Alexander Campbell, general
 
 don: Ebert Hubbard, publisher; D. A. ] Thomas. the wealthy Welsh coal oper- ator. and his daughter, Lady Mack worth an English suffragette, and the Rev Basil W. Maturin, Oxford, Eng | land
 Mir. Vanderbilt was one of those
 credited with receiving anonymous | letters of warning. All deprecated the possibility of danger to the ship and l Charles P. Sumner, general agent of | the line announced at the time that | the Lusitania's speed of 25 knots made her immune from submarine attacks. l In addition to those on her passen- ger list the Lusitania carried 36 who | were to have sailed the same day on | the Anchor liner Cameronia, which, at | the last moment. was held in port by orders of the British admiralty, pre- sumably to be sent to Halifax.
 The Lusitania's cargo was valued at
 about SibO,0OO and contained larg; quantity of war supplies.
 The ships manifest included 2S0, ,00t pounds of brass and copper wire, S6600
 worth of military goods, and 5411 cases of ammunition valued at S200.024 all O. which was contraband of war. The ship itself. Cunard officials sait today. was covered by s5,000.0O0 war risl insurance.
 The news created perhaps the greates consternation in exporting circles. wher the question arose as to the probable course of the steamship companies il maintaining future schedules. There wer, no cancellations announced today and despite the. fact that the Lusitania wa torpedoed, the Cunard line permitted th' Anchor liner Transylvania to sail tonigh 1 for Liverpool Out of her &9 passenger | only F cancelled their passage.
 The first intmation' of trouble to th'