NO WARNING GIVEN
“Was any warning given you before you were torpedoed?”
“None whatever. It was suddenly done and finished.”
“If there had been a patrol boat aboard; might it have been of assistance?”
“It might, but it is one of those things one never knows.”
With regard to the threats against his ship, Captain Turner said he saw nothing except what appeared in the New York papers the day before the Lusitania sailed. He never had heard the passengers talking about the threats, he said.
“Was a warning given to the lower decks after the ship had been struck?” Captain Turner was asked.
“All the passengers must have heard the explosion,” Captain Turner replied.
Captain Turner in answer to another question said he received no report from the lookout before the torpedo struck the Lusitania.