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

Victoria Daily Times, front page (Victoria, B.C., 8 May 1915): '1,364 were murdered by the Germans'

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'.

Date: May 8, 1915
Period: First World War
Made by: Victoria Daily Times (private newspaper, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
Region: North America
Country: Canada
Medium: Newspaper pages
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Borden Government
Leader: Robert Laird Borden
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Warn or inform
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: World War I
Techniques: Name-calling Testimonial
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Internet Archive, from the University of Victoria's Victoria Daily Times collection; rights checked on the Wikimedia Commons file page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victoria_Daily_Times_(May 8, 1915)_(IA_victoriadailytimes19150508).pdf, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (US, published before 1931; Commons: PD in Canada)
Victoria Daily Times, 8 May 1915, Vol. 46 No. 107; University of Victoria via Internet Archive

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."

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