iefly a conveyance for
passengers, and carrying more than a thousand souls having no part or
lot in the conduct of the war, was torpedoed and sunk without so much as
a challenge or a warning, that men, women and children were sent to
their death in circumstances unparalleled in modern warfare.

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S
NOTE TO GERMANY.

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_THE VERDICT_

"_It is the Hour, come_"

We find 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, and the Emperor of the Government of
Germany, under whose orders they acted, with the crime of wilful and
wholesale murder before the tribunal of the civilized world. We desire
to express our sincere condolence with the relatives of deceased; the
Cunard Company; and the United States of America, so many of whose
citizens perished in this murderous attack on an unarmed liner.

_The unanimous verdict of the Irish jury at
the inquest of the "Lusitania" victims._

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"_THIS IS TOO BORING, DO SUGGEST SOMETHING NEW_"

_Some German achievements in the first months of the Great War_:

The violation of Belgium and Luxemburg.

Massacre of civilian populations in Belgium and France.

Bombardment by warships of open towns.

Murder of civilians by air raids.

Murder of civilians on the high seas.

The introduction of liquid fire and poison gas.

Enslavement of conquered civilian communities.

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"_HAVE ANOTHER PIECE?_"

Without a drop of blood flowing, and without the life of a single
Italian being endangered, Italy could have secured the long list of
concessions which I recently read to the House--territory in Tyrol and
on the Isonzo as far as the Italian speech is heard, satisfactions of
the national aspirations in Trieste, a free hand in Albania, and the
valuable port of Valona.

VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG.
_Reichstag, May 28, 1915._

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_THE WOLF-TRAP_

_Italy: "You would make me believe that I shall have my cub given back
to me, but I know I shall have to fight for it"_

The discussion continued for months from the first days of December to
March, and it was not until the end of March that Barion Burian offered
a zone of territory comprised within a line extending from the existing
boundary to a point just north of the City of Trent