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(The sinking of the "Lusitania."
An amazing pen picture by Winsor McCay
Universal Films
John D. Tippett Managing Director)

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(Winsor McCay, originator and inventor of Animated Cartoons, decides to draw a historical record of the crime that shocked Humanity.)

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(Mr. Beach giving Winsor McCay the details of the sinking -- necessary for the work to follow.)

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(Twenty-five thousand drawings had to be made and photographed one at a time.)

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(The first work done was the moving sea.)

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(From here on you are looking at the first record of the sinking of the Lusitania.)

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(The Lusitania carrying more than 2000 passengers of whom 200 were Americans, sailed for Liverpool, England, May 1st, 1915.)

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(Warnings had been published in the New York newspapers by the German embassy, but they were regarded lightly, and all on board felt safe.)

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(Germany, which had already benumbed the world with its wholesale killing, then sent its instrument of crime to perform a more treacherous and cowardly offense.)

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(At noon, May 7th, the Lusitania sighted the coast of Ireland, nearing the end of her journey.)

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(Two hours later, while steaming at 18 Knots, the Lusitania was strucK almost directly under the Captain's bridge by the first of two torpedoes fired by the German Submarine U-39.)

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(After the first torpedo struck there were scenes of pitiful partings. 1150 persons perished -- 114 being Americans. Among there were men of world wide prominence, including --)

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(Elbert Hubbard.
Modern philosopher and author.)

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(Charles Klein.
The distinguished American Plawright.)

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(Alfred G. Vanderbilt
The multi-millionaire American Sportsman)

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(Charles Frohman.
The world's foremost theatrical manager, who faced death smiling and uttered to those about him just before the end came his immortal observation that *Death is but a beautiful adventure of life.*)

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(Germany, once a great and powerful nation, had done a dastardly deed in a dastardly way.)

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(While the life boats were being lowered a second torpedo crashed into the engine rooms. This was the death blow.)

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(The vessel righted herself after the shock and began to sink by the bow.)

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(No warning was given -- no mercy was shown.)

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(The babe that clung to his mother's breast cried out to the world --TO AVENGE the most violent cruelty that was ever perpetrated upon unsuspecting and innocent people.)

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(Fifteen minutes after the first torpedo struck, the Lusitania had disappeared beneath the waves.)

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(The man who fired the shot was decorated for it by the Kaiser! -- 
AND YET THEY TELL US NOT TO HATE THE HUN.)