--- title: Victoria Daily Times, daily edition, front page (Victoria, B.C., May 8, 1915) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victoria-daily-times-lusitania-murdered-1915-05-08/ description: Front page of the Victoria Daily Times, Saturday 8 May 1915. The banner reads '1,364 WERE MURDERED BY THE GERMANS'. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Newspaper front page using the words 'murdered', 'Savages' and 'Huns' for Germans, in a 1915 wartime headline. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Victoria Daily Times, daily edition, front page (Victoria, B.C., 1915-05-08)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/victoria-daily-times-lusitania-murdered-1915-05-08.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/victoria-daily-times-lusitania-murdered-1915-05-08.jpg) # Victoria Daily Times, daily edition, front page (Victoria, B.C., May 8, 1915) Front page of the Victoria Daily Times, Saturday 8 May 1915. The banner reads '1,364 WERE MURDERED BY THE GERMANS'. Inside the columns: 'Savages Gloat Over Success in Killing 1,500 Non-Combatants', 'Germany Knows No Law of God or Man', 'Powers of Hell Are Arrayed With Huns', and the report 'UNITED STATES ASKS GERMANY FOR REPORT'. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Victoria Daily Times. VOL. 46. VICTORIA, B. C., SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915. NO. 107 1,364 WERE MURDERED BY THE GERMANS 703 SAVED OUT OF TOTAL OF 2,067; MANY WOMEN AMONG DEAD FEW OF FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS SAVED SEVERAL PROMINENT AMERICANS PERISHED UNITED STATES ASKS GERMANY FOR REPORT SAY SHIP'S OFFICERS BEHAVED SPLENDIDLY GERMANY KNOWS NO LAW OF GOD OR MAN POWERS OF HELL ARE ARRAYED WITH HUNS Savages Gloat Over Success in Killing 1,500 Non-Combatants STATED THAT ITALY HAS DECLARED WAR GERMANS SENT DOWN ANOTHER TRAWLER [Copenhagen dispatch quoted:] "Berlin papers print the news of the sinking of the Lusitania in colossal type and hail the successful torpedoing of the ship as a new triumph for Germany's naval policy. The general impression is that Britain has got what she deserves." ``` Read from the page image: masthead, dateline and headlines only; body text is not transcribed. Spelling and punctuation as printed. [← The New York Times, daily edition, front page (New York, May 8, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nyt-lusitania-sunk-1915-05-08/) [The Woman's Dreadnought, 15 May 1915, p. 246: "Let Us Not Be Cowards" and "Whose Fiendish Devices?" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/womans-dreadnought-lusitania-fiendish-devices-1915/) ## Using the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)