Click2Disasters - The Lusitania - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>THE <i>LUSITANIA</i></b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch2.htm">2. A WORLD AT WAR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch3.htm">3. THE <i>LUSITANIA</i></a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch4.htm">4. MUNITIONS ON BOARD?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch5.htm">5. A TERRIBLE COINCIDENCE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch6.htm">6. THE ATTACK</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch7.htm">7. DEATH OF A SHIP</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch8.htm">8. VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch9.htm">9. AMMUNITION ON BOARD?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch10.htm">10. WAR MOMS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch11.htm">11. A BELLIGERENT MILITARY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch12.htm">12. FATAL RUMORS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch13.htm">13. ALL IN THE FAMILY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch14.htm">14. AMERICA ENTERS WWI</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch15.htm">15. THE WAR EFFORT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_lusitania_ch16.htm">16. THE END OF THE WAR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="4">NOTICE!<br> <font size="3"><i>Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic<br> voyage are reminded that a state of war exists<br> between Germany and her allies and Great Britain<br> and her allies; that the zone of war includes the<br> waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance<br> with formal notice given by the Imperial German<br> Government, vessels flying the flag of Great<br> Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction<br> in those waters and that travelers sailing in the war<br> zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at<br> their own risk.</i><br><br> Imperial German Embassy</b><br> Washington, D.C.<br> April 22, 1915<br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Germany and Great Britain were at war. So were most of the other countries of Europe. The United States, wanting to remain neutral, had not yet entered World War I. But the Imperial Government of Kaiser <a href="http://www.worldwar1.com/biokais.htm" target="_blank"><b>Wilhelm II</b></a> had issued a dire <a href="http://www.geocities.com/titanicandco/lusitania/germannotice.jpg" target="_blank"><b>warning</b></a> to American citizens: Stay out of the waters around the British Isles. Those waters included the Irish Sea.</p> <p>How many of the 1959 people on board the <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a11000/6a11900/6a11970r.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>Lusitania</b></i></a> on May 7, 1915 knew about Germany’s threat to sink non-military ships? </p> <p>Of those who knew, how many really believed that women and <a href="http://ww1-propaganda-cards.com/images/lus8.JPG" target="_blank"><b>children</b></a> would be treated like front-line soldiers of war?</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="the_lusitania_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p><br>  </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>