The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
The ADVERTISERS SEM-WEEELY
We Wait No Longer

d. BERLIN, May s-(via wireless to LondonD-The
following official communication was issued tonight
" The Cunard liner Lusitania yesterday torpedoed
by German submarine and sank The Lnsitania
naturally armed with guns, IS were recently most Of
the English mercantile steamers. Moreover, as was
wen known here she had large pnantities Of wat ma
terial in her cargo. Her owners therefore, knsw TO
bear al ne responabiiiy for what has happened
&RFHia y .F7,s ...'"
KINsALB, ireland, May lo-( Associassd Prsss)-
the S vs her: ss'y y the ss %
pedoing Of the Lusitania 10 a. follows:
We ana that deceased met death from prolonged
immersion and exhaustion IN Tho eight miles south
southeast Old Head Of Kinsas Friday May 2, 1915
owing to the sinking Of che Lusitania by toEpedoes
fred by q German submarine = "a ~.
We And that the appalling crime was committed
contrary international law and the conventions Of all
civilized nations =" ~ ~,
We also charge the officers Of said submarine and
the Emperor and the governments Of Germany, under
whose orders they acted with IN I'M the trim. % Wholesale
We desire to express sincere condolences and sym
pathy with the United States, many Of
whose citizens persisted in this murderous attack on
an unarmed liner.
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THREE years ago this morning The Adver-
i tiser announced to Hawaii the greatest crime
which up until then the baby-killers Of Berlin had
The news of the unwarned torpedo
ing of the Iusitania which resulted in the death
of 1854 persons, many of them women and chill
dren, and the injury of forty-seven other passen-
gers, came to many as the final blow in the face
of America that would bring war. 1t did bring
war, but not for two years, but the lapse Of time
between the torpedo that was insolently and muir
derously fired against the United States and the
of President Wilson's patience has not
dulled American remembrance and many Hun
is sent to hell these days with Remember the
Lusitania" ringing in his ears. With bomb and
bayonet the Sammies today are exacting the price
for the lives of the women and the babes who went
down strangling off Old Kinsale Head three years
ago yesterday. l,4 Z
The sinking of the Lusitania brought the war
first to America We had shuddered over the sack
of LorVain, the massacre of Dinant, the wholesale
slaughtef of trapped Russians in the Masurian
Swamps, the filthy pillaging Of Northern France
the criiei6xion of Canadian prisoners and the out
raging; bf nuns but these were all echoes from a
tragedy surrounded by the clouds of German de-
malls and German justihcations. Until the Lusi-
tania was destroyed and the United States was
forced to believe that the wholesale murders were
deliberate and carried through by direct govern
mental order, the tales from France, Belgium
Poland and Serbia were scarcely credited. Who
Sould believe, without some direct unmstakable
proof that whole nation could go blood mad
that people who had boosted for generations OF
their "kultur"-which we believed to mean the
civilization to rsnd it and trampe under spurred
heel every divine and human law?
The Lusitania taught what Germansm act
ually is. While our government continued to try
to reach reasonable understanding with the brute
for two years and while President did not
acknowledge himself "disillusoned" for three
years, the Nation turned toward war and was fully
prepared in mind when the final break came, agar
forced upon us by the contemptuous notification
from Berlin that we need expect consideration
whatever whenever our interests conhicted in thu
slightest with those of the War Lord
At last we are ready to give to Germany oul
reply to her Lusitania torpedo. At last we ar,
prepared to clear that blot off our escutcheon. l
has been overlong, but the blows we are now in
position to strike will be only the harder becaus.
we have waited three long years to arm ourselves
and to reach the battlefront
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