The Lusitania sailed at 12:20 noon.
Five days later occurred the crime which almost brought America into the second year of the war.

The Cunard line steamship Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine with a loss of 1,154 lives, of which 114 were Americans.

After the policy of frightfulness put into effect by the Germans in Belgium and other invaded territories, the massacres of civilians, the violation of women and killing of children; burning, looting and pillage; the destruction of whole towns, acts for which no military necessity could be pleaded, civilization should have been prepared for the Lusitania crime.

But it seems it was not.

The burst of indignation throughout the United States was terrible.