Lusitania Sinking

LONDON, Jan. 22, 1915 (UP) - The English steamer Durward, from Leith to Rotterdam, was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine yesterday, 22 miles northwest of the Bus lightship, near the mouth of the Maas, it was officially announced today. The crew was rescued by a Dutch pilot boat and landed at the Hook.

BERLIN via Amsterdam, Feb. 18, 1915 (UP) - While the complete text of the German reply to the American note protesting against the contemplated submarine blockade is withheld pending its being made public in Washington, summaries printed here make it evident Germany stands firmly by her original intention.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 1915 (UP) - President Wilson views the international situation, despite its grave possibilities, with optimism, it was officially stated today.

LONDON, Feb. 18, 1915 (UP) - "Der tag" dawned cold, wet and gloomy throughout the British isles.

BERLIN, via The Hague, March 27, 1915 (UP) - President Wilson's newest effort to bring about a cessation of hostilities in Europe has met with failure.

NEW YORK, May 3, 1915 (UP) - All Europe recognizes that the great war has developed something new in history - the siege of a nation - and has resolved itself into an endurance contest of indeterminable length. An end of the war in 1915 is generally regarded as too remote for serious consideration. The United States will eventually have the greatest opportunity in the history of the world to act as peacemaker - unless that opportunity is killed by ill-advised, premature peace talk at this time.

LIVERPOOL, May 7, 1915 (UP) - The Cunard liner Lusitania with a heavy passenger list of Americans, was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast this afternoon. Small boats rushed from Queenstown to Old Head of Kinsale off which point the liner was torpedoed.

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1915 (UP) - After talking with President Wilson tonight concerning the issuance of a statement on the Lusitania disaster, Secretary Tumulty, at 9 p.m., gave out the following:

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1915 (UP) - The state department today asked Berlin for a report on the Lusitania disaster. It expressed a desire that it be based on the statement of the submarine commander who made the attack-assuming that the liner was sunk by submarine.

LONDON, May 8, 1915 (UP) - The admiralty this afternoon said that the latest reports available indicated that only 703 of the passengers and crew of the Lusitania have been saved, and that 1,346 probably have been lost.

LONDON, May 10, 1915 (UP) - The consensus of opinion of the Lusitania's survivors is that only five of her 35 lifeboats were successfully launched. All united in statements criticizing the inadequacy of the emergency preparations.

LONDON, May 10, 1915 (UP) - The board of trade inquiry into the loss of the Cunard liner Lusitania will begin at once.

QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, May 10, 1915 (UP) - The largest funeral in the history of this little Irish coast city was held here today for the Lusitania's victims.

QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, May 10, 1915 (UP) - With all survivors now almost certainly accounted for, it is possible to make up the figures of the toll of death exacted by the German submarine which sent the giant Cunarder Lusitania to the bottom. The latest revised figures by the Cunard officers are as follows:

BERLIN, via wireless to London, May 10, 1915 (UP) - The German government has cabled to the state department at Washington an expression of deepest sympathy over the loss of American lives through the destruction of the Lusitania.