From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 12:18:31 PST
Hey Jack,
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/usmunitions_lansing.htm
Response to 1915 protest by Austria-Hungary to US
muntions trade by the Secretary of State.
Rick
--- Jack Lee <milveh@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Rick, you always seem so quick to find fault with
> America (absent any
> facts), whats your problem?
>
> Here we have a civilian passenger vessel sunk by a
> U-boat, innocent lives
> lost and you turn it around and say they were
> probably carrying munititions
> to Europe so its America's fault? lol Man, that's
> just plain bullsh-- and
> I am getting sick of liberals like you finding fault
> with America.
>
> By the way, for the rest of you guys...here is a
> great site that gives
> incredible insight into the life a WWII German
> sub...
>
> http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-515INT.htm
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick v100" <rickv100@yahoo.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] history - WWI 1917 German sub
> sinks U.S. passenger ship
> California
>
>
> > Probably was carrying war material to Europe
> despite
> > the Neutrality Act.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > --- Everette <194cbteng@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> >> February 6
> >>
> >> 1917 German sub sinks U.S. passenger ship
> California
> >> Just three days after U.S. President Woodrow
> >> Wilson's speech of February 3,
> >> 1917-in which he broke diplomatic relations with
> >> Germany and warned that war
> >> would follow if American interests at sea were
> again
> >> assaulted-a German
> >> submarine torpedoes and sinks the Anchor Line
> >> passenger steamer California
> >> off the Irish coast.
> >>
> >> The explosion of the torpedo was so violent and
> >> devastating that the
> >> 470-foot, 9,000-ton steamer sank just nine
> minutes
> >> after the attack. Despite
> >> desperate S.O.S. calls sent by the crew to ensure
> >> the arrival of rescue
> >> ships, 38 people drowned after the initial
> >> explosion, for a total of 43
> >> dead.
> >> This type of blatant German defiance of Wilson's
> >> warning about the
> >> consequences of unrestricted submarine warfare
> >> drove Wilson and the United
> >> States to take the final steps towards war. On
> April
> >> 2, Wilson went before
> >> Congress to deliver his war message; the formal
> >> declaration of U.S. entrance
> >> into the First World War came four days later.
> >>
> >> Everette
> >> Deo adiuvante
> >>
> >>
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