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INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

AN UNPRECEDENTED CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

THE LUSITANIA: BUILT FOR “SAFETY”

GERMANY’S ANNOUNCED INTENTION TO SINK THE VESSEL

LINER’S SPEED INCREASED AS DANGER NEARED

SUBMARINE’S PERISCOPE DIPS UNDER SURFACE

PASSENGERS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS FUMES

BOAT CAPSIZES WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN

HUNDREDS JUMP INTO THE SEA

LUSITANIA GOES TO HER DOOM

INTERVIEW WITH CAPTAIN TURNER

ALFRED G. VANDERBILT GAVE LIFE FOR A WOMAN

CHARLES FROHMAN DIED WITHOUT FEAR

SAVING THE BABIES

TORONTO GIRL OF FOURTEEN PROVES HEROINE

HEROISM OF CAPTAIN TURNER AND HIS CREW

WOMAN RESCUED WITH DEAD BABY AT HER BREAST

HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATORS

SAVED HIS WIFE AND HELPED IN RESCUE WORK

“SAVED ALL THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WE COULD”

COULD NOT LAUNCH BOATS

SAYS SHIP SANK IN FIFTEEN MINUTES

SCREAMS INTENSIFY HORROR

ON HUNT FOR THE LIFE-BELTS

INJURED BOY SHOWS PLUCK

MANY CHILDREN DROWNED

WOMEN RUSHED FOR THE BOATS

PATERSON, N. J., GIRLS AMONG RESCUED

THREATENED SEAMEN WITH REVOLVER

RESCUED UNCONSCIOUS FROM THE WATER

LIFE-BOAT SMASHED

REASSURED BY SHIP’S OFFICER

PASSENGERS WERE AGHAST

OCCUPANTS OF LIFE-BOATS THROWN INTO SEA

A HEART-BREAKING SCENE

STORY OF ETONIAN’S CAPTAIN

DODGED TWO SUBMARINES

NARRAGANSETT DRIVEN OFF

TORPEDO FIRED AT NARRAGANSETT

“THE CRIME OF WHOLESALE MURDER”

CAPTAIN TURNER’S TESTIMONY

SAW THE TORPEDO

DOUBLE LOOKOUTS ON LINER

NO WARNING GIVEN

OTHER TESTIMONY

CORONER HORGAN’S STATEMENT

THE EAST

THE WEST

THE SOUTH

SENTIMENT OF THE CANADIAN PRESS

VIEWS OF PROMINENT CANADIANS

THE NOTE TO GERMANY

ATTACKS CALLED CONTRARY TO RULES OF WARFARE

WARNING TO GERMANY RECALLED

SUBMARINE WARFARE ON COMMERCE CONDEMNED

PUBLISHED WARNING DECLARED NO EXCUSE FOR ATTACK

PROMPT, JUST ACTION BY GERMANY EXPECTED

THE WHOLE NATION BEHIND THE PRESIDENT

SOUTH AND WEST RESOUNDED WITH APPROVAL

BLAMES BRITAIN FOR MISUSE OF FLAGS

INVESTIGATING CASES OF CUSHING AND GULFLIGHT

DECLARES SHIP CARRIED MOUNTED CANNON

SAYS IT ACTED IN JUSTIFIED SELF-DEFENSE

FINAL DECISION ON DEMANDS DEFERRED

AMERICAN OPINION OF GERMAN EXCUSES

EVASIVE AND INSINCERE

ATTACKS ON AMERICAN VESSELS MUST CEASE

SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT

BREAKING POINT OF CIVILIZATION

BARBARISM AND WOMEN

AFTER BARBARISM WHAT?

ABYSS OF WANT AND WOE

NO WORK, AND HEAVY WAR TAXES

PATIENCE OF BELGIANS

CRYING NEED OF FOOD

BELGIAN PEOPLE WARDS OF THE WORLD

A HARROWING RECITAL

TELLS OF MASSACRES

“KILLED IN MASSES”

THE TALE OF LOUVAIN

TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

CALLS KILLING DELIBERATE

“SPIRIT OF WAR DEIFIED”

THE COMMISSION’S CONCLUSIONS

HIS ARREST

A TOWN IN RUINS

BURYING THE DEAD

THE LEVELED GUNS

MARCHING AMONG GERMAN CAMPS

NO MONEY AND NO WORK

NOTHING SACRED

HIDEOUS FACES OF THE DEAD

WOMEN FORCED TO DIG GRAVES

GETTING HARDENED

WHOLESALE PILLAGE

MUTILATIONS OF THE DEAD

THE FRENCH REPORT

ART TREASURES OF HISTORIC CITY

REDUCED TO A HEAP OF ASHES

PITILESS DESTRUCTION AS TOLD BY TOWN TREASURER

A MODERN POMPEII

BURNING OF CITY SYSTEMATIC

INDIGNANT PROTEST AGAINST MODERN HUNS

THE “ROYAL CITY”

CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME

ART TREASURES

CATHEDRAL A TARGET

ANGER OF CROWD STILLED BY PRIESTS

“SUPREME SACRIFICE AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF MAN”

BEAUTY IRREPARABLY GONE

A REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE

QUIET PRECEDING STORM

SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES

LINE NEVER WAVERED

OFFICER FELL AT HEAD OF TROOPS

FORTUNES OF THIRD BRIGADE

IN DIRE PERIL

OVERWHELMING NUMBERS

SECOND BRIGADE PUT TO TEST

CAPTURE OF ST. JULIEN

A HERO LEADING HEROES

THE PRIZE OF PARIS

HEROIC EFFORTS OF FRENCH SOLDIERS

GERMANS BALKED OF THEIR PRIZE

SIXTY MILES OF FUGITIVES

TERROR IN EYES

PARIS THE BEAUTIFUL

GERMANS HAVE LEARNED MUCH

STANDARDIZED MODEL

FRENCH STUDY OF GERMAN METHODS

“COMFORTS OF HOME”

BRITISH REFUGES IN NORTHERN FRANCE

“PICNICKING” IN THE OPEN AIR

RAVAGES OF ARTILLERY FIRE

THE COMMON ENEMY, THE WEATHER

WHY COOKS WEAR IRON CROSSES

“PUTTING ONE OVER” ON THE RUSSIANS

A SURPRISE PREPARED

“HELL BROKE LOOSE”

A HORRIBLE THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES

TRENCHES FILLED WITH DEAD

HOARSE SHOUTS AND THE GROANS OF THE WOUNDED

INDESCRIBABLE MASS OF RUINS

“SMEARED WITH DUST AND BLOOD”

ON THE FIRING LINE

AMONG MANGLED HORSES AND MEN

GERMAN LOSSES FRIGHTFUL

DIXMUDE A PLACE OF DEATH AND HORROR

“WAR IS TERRIBLE”

THE COMMON ENEMY, DEATH

“SAME PAIR OF BLUE EYES”

FIGHTING WITHOUT HATE

MRS. KAUFFMAN’S DESCRIPTION

CANNONADING AT WHITBY

FREAKISH EFFECTS OF SHELLS

FLIGHT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

UNITED STATES REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE WAR ZONE

A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS

AIMED AT NEUTRAL SHIPPING

AN INHUMAN POLICY

THE ATTACK ON THE GULFLIGHT

THE THREE-MILE LIMIT

BELLIGERENTS’ RIGHTS

NOTICE IN LEAVING NEUTRAL WATERS

EVASIONS OF NEUTRALITY

DESOLATION AND FAMINE THROUGHOUT LAND

RICH AND POOR ALIKE DESTITUTE

PLIGHT OF RUSSIAN POLAND

NO BREAD FOR WEEKS IN LODZ

THREE TIMES A BATTLE-FIELD

UNABLE TO HELP HERSELF

NO SEED AND NO DRAFT ANIMALS

KINDS OF BOMBS

STEEL DARTS

“ARROW BULLETS” AND AERIAL TORPEDOES

MACHINE GUNS IN AIRCRAFT

ACCURACY IN DROPPING BOMBS

ATTACK ON LINER DESCRIBED

OPERATION OF TORPEDOES

NETS TO TRAP SUBMARINES

HOW CRAFT SUBMERGE

INCREASED RANGE

MODERN GUNS

RAPID FIRING

HOW A BIG GUN IS AIMED

AWFUL DESTRUCTIVENESS OF MODERN GUNS

CANADIAN VICTIMS

“TRENCH GAS” AT YPRES

AWFUL FORM OF SCIENTIFIC TORTURE

REPORT OF MEDICAL EXPERT

KIND OF GAS EMPLOYED

ALLIES FORCED TO USE SIMILAR METHODS

UNLIMITED DESTRUCTION THE END OF WAR

RULES OF CIVILIZED WARFARE CLEARLY STATED

OTHER EXCELLENT RULES

PART PLAYED BY HORSE IN WAR

AMERICAN STOCK DEPLETED

SCOURGES OF MODERN WARFARE

RAVAGES OF TYPHUS IN SERVIA

NO WORD OF COMPLAINT

AMERICA TO THE RESCUE

THE BANDAGING CAMP

THE SANITATION COMPANY

THE HOSPITAL BARGE

THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY

DECLINE OF THE WAR SPIRIT

THE DAWN OF UNIVERSAL PEACE

Transcriber’s Notes