Lusitania (67 page)
Authors: Greg King
54
. Horgan, 274;
New York Times,
May 11, 1915.
55
. Hoehling and Hoehling, 219.
56
.
New York Tribune,
May 10, 1915.
57
. Bernard,
Cock Sparrow,
163.
58
. Rhondda,
D. A. Thomas,
200.
59
. Wesley Frost to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, May 11, 1915, in NARA: United States Department of State, 841.857 L97/27.
60
.
New York Times,
May 10, 1915.
61
. Ibid., May 25, 1915.
62
.
Chicago Tribune,
May 10, 1915, courtesy of Michael Poirier.
63
.
New York Times,
May 11, 1915.
64
. Ibid., May 10, 1915.
65
.
New York Times,
May 25, 1915; Michael Byrne, letter of June 8, 1915, in NARA: United States Department of State, 841.857 L97/72, courtesy of Michael Poirier.
66
.
New York World,
May 10, 1915.
67
.
New York Sun,
May 25, 1915.
68
.
Richmond Times Dispatch,
June 4, 1915, in Droste and Tantum, 174–75.
69
. Bernard,
Cock Sparrow,
151, 167, 171.
70
.
New York Times,
May 10, 1915.
71
. Ibid., May 11, 1915.
72
. Gregory, 216.
73
. Hoehling and Hoehling, 219; Frost, 230.
74
.
New York Times,
May 12, 1915.
75
. Kalafus and Poirier,
Lest We Forget, Part 2.
76
.
New York Times,
May 11, 1915.
77
. Unidentified, undated newspaper clipping, in Hoehling and Hoehling Archive, MS Collection 45, Box 1, Folder 61.
78
. Wesley Frost, telegram to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, May 11, 1915, in NARA: United States Department of State, 841.857 L97/22.
79
. Frost, 234–35.
80
. Bailey and Ryan, 193; Layton, 424; Preston, 303; Ramsay, 296.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
1
.
Daily Mirror,
May 8, 1915; Preston, 308.
2
.
The Times,
May 10, 1915.
3
. Ibid., May 8, 1915.
4
. Snyder, 52.
5
. Preston, 3, 309.
6
.
New York Tribune,
May 8, 1915.
7
.
New York Herald,
May 8, 1915.
8
.
New York World,
May 8, 1915.
9
.
New York Times,
May 10, 1915.
10
. Hurd, 15.
11
. Bailey and Ryan, 229.
12
. Gerard,
Four Years,
179, 181.
13
. Gerard,
Face to Face,
42–43, 48.
14
. Tirpitz, 2:155.
15
.
New York Times,
May 10, 1915.
16
. Bernstorff, 138–40.
17
.
New York Times,
May 11, 1915.
18
.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations,
1915 Supplement, 385–86.
19
.
Atlanta Constitution,
May 8, 1915, courtesy of Michael Poirier.
20
.
New York Times
, May 11, 1915.
21
.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations,
1915 Supplement, 393–96.
22
. Ramsay, 174.
23
. Bailey and Ryan, 84–85.
24
. Ramsay, 196; Preston, 362; Simpson, 16.
25
. Horgan, 273–74;
New York Times,
May 11, 1915.
26
.
New York Times
, May 11, 1915.
27
. Horgan, 275.
28
. Preston, 324.
29
. Bailey and Ryan, 201.
30
. Mersey Report, 8, in Bailey and Ryan Archive, Box 2.
31
. Preston, 308.
32
. Ibid., 363.
33
.
New York Times,
May 11, 1915.
34
. Webb Memorandum, May 12, 1915, in Bailey and Ryan, 179; Preston, 317.
35
. Bailey and Ryan, 179–80.
36
. William Turner, testimony of June 15, 1915, Mersey In Camera, in Bailey and Ryan Archive, Box 2.
37
. Bailey and Ryan, 202.
38
. Ibid., 206–7.
39
. Mersey Report, 5–6, in Bailey and Ryan Archive, Box 2.
40
. Ibid., 5–7.
41
. Ibid., 6.
42
. Ibid., 9.
43
. Simpson, 232.
44
. Lauriat, 155–58.
45
. Bailey and Ryan, 272.
46
. Ibid., 273–85.
47
. Simpson, 34.
48
. Winston Churchill to Walter Runciman, letter of February 12, 1915, in Gilbert, 3:501.
49
. Bailey and Ryan, 191.
50
. Beesly, 114, 122; Preston, 348.
51
. Simpson, 194–96.
52
. Beesly, 122.
53
.
New York Post,
May 8, 1915.
54
. Simpson, 106; Ramsay, 56.
55
.
The Times,
July 20, 2008;
Daily Mail,
December 20, 2008.
56
. Ballard, 148, 152; Gentile, 1:62–63; Snyder, 71; Preston, 373; Bailey and Ryan, 323; Ramsay, 189; Simpson, 9–10.
57
. MacLeish, 37–45.
58
. Ballard, 194–95; Gentile, 1:25.
59
. Ballard, 194–95.
60
. O’Sullivan, 101–5.
61
. Ballard, 194–95; Gentile, 1:25;
Daily Telegraph,
July 1, 2012.
62
. Bailey and Ryan, 166–67; Preston, 451–53.
63
. See William Adams, Mayer testimony, 5–6, 21, 24, in Bailey and Ryan Archive, Box 7; Isaac Lehmann, Mayer testimony, 272, 294, in Bailey and Ryan Archive, Box 6;
Retford, Gainsborough and Worksop Times,
June 11, 1915, courtesy of Michael Poirier.
64
. Charles Bowring, Mayer testimony, 472, 494, in Bailey and Ryan Archive, Box 6.
65
. Bailey and Ryan, 158–59; Preston, 313–14, 417; Bailey and Ryan, 358, note 15, reports that these handwritten logs were usually destroyed after being handed over to an official for transcription.
66
. Bailey and Ryan, 151; Preston, 418.
67
. Walther Schwieger, War Diary for U-20, in Bailey, 335–36.
68
. Bailey and Ryan, 151; Preston, 418.
69
. Walther Schwieger, War Diary for U-20, in Bailey, 336.
70
. Bailey and Ryan, 152.
71
. Preston, 417, 419; Bailey and Ryan, 158–59.
72
. Bailey and Ryan, 152; Preston, 417.
73
. Bailey and Ryan, 83.
74
. Ibid., 164.
75
. Ibid., 122.
76
. Gentile, 1:25–26.
77
. Layton, 93; Preston, 445, 448;
Daily Telegraph,
July 1, 2012.
78
. Thomas, 97–99.
79
. Bailey and Ryan, 157; Tirpitz, 2:168.
80
. Preston, 433.
81
. Molony,
Double Jeopardy.
82
. Thomas, 107; Sauder and Marschall, 78; Gray, 261; Preston, 434.
83
. Bailey and Ryan, 162; Gray, 268.
84
. Bailey and Ryan, 162; Preston, 378–79.
85
. Preston, 420.
86
. Bailey and Ryan, 154–55.
87
. Ibid., 340.
88
.
News of the World,
London, June 6, 1937.
EPILOGUE
1
.
New York Times,
May 10, 1915.
2
. Lauriat, 50–51.
3
. Ibid., 53–54, 67.
4
. Ryerse, 16–17.
5
. Poirier,
Tragic Tale,
167.
6
. Reksten, 235.
7
. Walker, 160.
8
.
Auburn Citizen,
June 15, 1915, courtesy of Michael Poirier.
9
.
Loney Family
;
Lusitania Resource.
10
. Marion Holbourn, letter of June 21 1955, in Hoehling and Hoehling Archive, MS Collection 45, Box 1, Folder 27.
11
. Ibid.
12
.
Worcester Daily Times,
May 15, 1915, in Hoehling and Hoehling Archive, MS Collection 45, Box 2, Folder 70.
13
. Marion Holbourn, letter of June 21, 1955, in Hoehling and Hoehling Archive, MS Collection 45, Box 1, Folder 27.
14
. Holbourn,
Moat,
2.
15
. Avis Dolphin Foley, letter of August 25, 1955, in Hoehling and Hoehling Archive, MS Collection 45, Box 1, Folder 16.
16
.
Lexington Herald,
May 16, 1915, courtesy of Michael Poirier.
17
. James Houghton, letter to Freeman family, 1915, from the collection of Chester Nimitz Lay and Richard Bailey, courtesy of Michael Poirier.