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!EXTRA! LUSITANIA TORPEDOED BY GERMAN SUBMARINE!

Luxury Ocean Liner Sinks in Minutes; More Than a Thousand Feared Dead. Many Americans Killed; Wilson Ponders Response. Special to The Great War Project (5-7 May) On May 7th precisely a century ago, at 2:10 in the afternoon off the southeast coast of Ireland, the British ocean liner Lusitania is hit by a torpedo launched…