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title: The New York Times, daily edition, front page (New York, May 8, 1915)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nyt-lusitania-sunk-1915-05-08/
description: Front page of The New York Times, Saturday 8 May 1915. The four-deck lead reads 'LUSITANIA SUNK BY A SUBMARINE, PROBABLY 1,000 DEAD; TWICE TORPEDOED OFF…
section: Collection
---

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# The New York Times, daily edition, front page (New York, May 8, 1915)

Front page of The New York Times, Saturday 8 May 1915. The four-deck lead reads 'LUSITANIA SUNK BY A SUBMARINE, PROBABLY 1,000 DEAD; TWICE TORPEDOED OFF IRISH COAST; SINKS IN 15 MINUTES; AMERICANS ABOARD INCLUDED VANDERBILT AND FROHMAN; WASHINGTON BELIEVES THAT A GRAVE CRISIS IS AT HAND', over a photograph of the ship and bylined dispatches from Washington, Syracuse and London.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
The New York Times. 'All the News That's Fit to Print.' NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ONE CENT.

LUSITANIA SUNK BY A SUBMARINE, PROBABLY 1,000 DEAD;
TWICE TORPEDOED OFF IRISH COAST; SINKS IN 15 MINUTES;
AMERICANS ABOARD INCLUDED VANDERBILT AND FROHMAN;
WASHINGTON BELIEVES THAT A GRAVE CRISIS IS AT HAND

SHOCKS THE PRESIDENT / Washington Deeply Stirred by Disaster and Fears a Crisis.
Roosevelt Calls It An Act of Piracy.
Admiralty Puts Embargo On News Dispatches
SOME DEAD TAKEN ASHORE / Several Hundred Survivors at Queenstown and Kinsale.
ATTACKED IN BROAD DAY
Cunard Office Here Beseiged for News; Fate of 1,918 on Lusitania Long in Doubt
Loss of the Lusitania Fills London With Horror and Utter Amazement
DEATH OF FROHMAN IS FEARED IN LONDON
THE LOST CUNARD STEAMSHIP LUSITANIA (photograph caption)
```

Read from the page image: masthead, dateline and headlines only; body text is not transcribed. Spelling and punctuation as printed.

[← La Libre Belgique, no. 7, March 1915: "Bulletin de propagande patriotique" (clandestine, Brussels)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-libre-belgique-no-7-bulletin-de-propagande-patriotique-1915/) [Victoria Daily Times, daily edition, front page (Victoria, B.C., May 8, 1915) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victoria-daily-times-lusitania-murdered-1915-05-08/)

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