Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-05-13
SAYS GERMANS
KNEW COURSE Of
THE LUS|TAN|A
American Submarine Officer
Declares Cunarder Was
Doomed from Time She
Left New York.

river occasionally broke, an officer or the
flotilla now anchored there, painted the
Tuaitania disaster from the viewpoint OF
n man technically versed in the science
of sudden destruction from an unseen
source.
Every one" he began, is talking OF
tho utter horror of the thing, and feeling
It, too ! feel this as strongly as any
one. But since YOU ask me Ia speak OF
the professional aspects of the sinking OF
the Lusitania-that is, from the stand
point of a submarine man-you must not
mind If seem to speak coldly and dis
passionately."
/ The officer was assured that this was
! the very idea the visitor had in mind.
/ We'll, then" he went on, II think 1t
should be kept in mind that what the
captain of the Lustania was doing was
not based upon his own theories of the
situation. He was sailing under admir-
atty orders These orders involved many
/ directions, including the course he was
to follow, his speed night and day IN va
,ious places. and all things of that sort
The admiralty. you know, is much more
closely in touch with conditions in the
war zone of the Atlantic and contiguous
waters than Captain Turner POSSIBLY
could be, and he therefore had to rely
linphcltiv upon the ORDERS ne receiVeu'
! Now IL IL "''ose'her coiceiN bp'e-lii iaC''
reNard IT as aoSo.u'ciN ccr'a''l-'i'"' ''e
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| past '''' ->"i 'N'
hoAl9 LAY IN WAIT.
'With the Lusitana leaving New
York the German authorities turned
! their mind to the one thought Of get
ting the big liner. To this end three or
four divisions of submarncs-at least Il
boats, were dispatched to lay in wait
for the steamship, The precision with
which the greyhound was met and sunk
indicates that the submarine divisions
knew just where to wait They Were
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meat exhausted the irst Day with the
necessity OF remaining submerged prac-
locally all the time, one may imagine
that submarine crew. III tlme OF war
with every human peIspecuNe aI'o'cu
dct"fl"iat"S Tor the ulne polhS "ot'
hhohlalN ana PHNsical9'
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Iusitoria Arriving ot the Mace tC
which tb.v had boon a .sipned-thov nm.
do,,htadIv v,rro extended in q long line
fulI,. co,.,ir,r tho Tueitania,s course
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noo,b ,ho s,,rfoca allowing tboir peri
sco,,.,, 70 on,oo,. CIV, ovorv fov minutes
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s,roirod for tho dun him that woulf
da,ot, o,,oirst tho darLness the nres
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'i' ii"' W
IheN had thelf own peril TO con
slider, OF course. We nave reason u
know that the British government i
working feverishly to eliminate th'
, submarine terror. and We have in GU
possession facts which show that no
long before the I.usitania was torpe
doed the British. through their lates
device of netting waters infested b.
the German submarines had destroye,
three submarines Then, too the Ger
mans had To watch out for their great
est enemy. the destrovers. which. beinj