Re: Secret of the Lusitania:
- From: "Stormin Mormon" <cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:50:56 -0500
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"Bob Brock" <bbrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I guess it just goes to show that, no matter how good the cover-up,
eventually the truth comes out.
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1098904/Secret-Lusitania-Arms-challenges-Allied-claims-solely-passenger-ship.html>
Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage
that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.
But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by
the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.
Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been
right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and
was a legitimate military target
The Cunard vessel, steaming from New York to Liverpool, was sunk eight
miles off the Irish coast by a U-boat.
Maintaining that the Lusitania was solely a passenger vessel, the
British quickly accused the 'Pirate Hun' of
slaughtering civilians.
The disaster was used to whip up anti-German anger, especially in the
U.S., where 128 of the 1,198 victims came from.
A hundred of the dead were children, many of them under two.
Robert Lansing, the U.S. secretary of state, later wrote that the
sinking gave him the 'conviction we would ultimately become the ally
of Britain'.
Americans were even told, falsely, that German children were given a
day off school to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania.
The disaster inspired a multitude of recruitment posters
One, famously showing a young mother slipping below the waves with her
baby, carried the simple slogan 'Enlist'.
Two years later, the Americans joined the Allies as an associated
power - a decision that turned the war decisively against Germany.
The diving team estimates that around four million rounds of
U.S.-manufactured
(...)
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