To: nickcarraway
I thought it was already pretty well established that the Lusitania was carrying munitions.
15 posted on
07/23/2008 1:12:27 PM PDT by
jalisco555
("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
To: jalisco555
I don't remember where, but I think I read the the Lusitania was transporting war materiel. Lumber was being transported as ballast.
19 posted on
07/23/2008 1:14:41 PM PDT by
SMARTY
('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
To: jalisco555
RMS Lusitania was supposedly an “auxiliary cruiser”
of the Royal Navy. Perhaps that was the justification.
Of course its possible that a German sympathizer among
the longshoremen reported the cargo to the embassy.
Fascinating if a message from the embassy in Washington DC
turnsed up in the German archives..
30 posted on
07/23/2008 1:18:19 PM PDT by
rahbert
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