Milsurp After Hours

Meanwhile, back at the ranch. Wilson tells the press club how high minded the US is. As soon as Europe has enough death and destruction the US is going to step in and aid both sides to get back to their feet and not judge the rightness or wrongness of the outcome.....just in case one side actually wins. What a saint ....and how noble. And how lacking in a crystal ball.

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Remember the French Captain I posted about last January who killed his wife when she refused to go back home and let him do his duty? Well..... the trial came up in April a hundred years ago. And only the French could see justice in the verdict.

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"My life has been a hell."..... said every married man.... ever.

But most of us didn't kill the wife..........and get away with it........Sacré Bleu!!

Zees was ze crime of ze passion no? E passionately want to keeel er, yes?

There was still a lot of war left and the husband was useful as canon fodder. Wonder if he managed to get killed before it was over?

Where's Paul Harvey when you need "the rest of the story". Yeah... I know.... Harvey's dead.

Here's one for Ripley.

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That Lusitania fair warning thing.

The German warning that they would sink British shipping regardless of the passengers was only published the day of the Lusitania sailing on the fateful voyage. How many of the passengers would have seen it with a 10 am departure? How many who had bought their tickets and were all packed up, would have been dissuaded from getting aboard if they had read it?

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This is in the New York Sun on Saturday May 1, 1915 , the day of sailing. The same paper and the New York Times had posted the sailing information the day before but the warning only shows up on the day of departure.

Update on day of sailing. First class passengers received telegrams warning them they were in danger of German Submarines. Others were approached at the dock and warned. The Cunard line said... no way a German Sub could sink our ship...it's too fast.

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Lusitania goes down and although there is a large loss of life, a rather small percentage are American. However, one effect is that war material makers get a notice that they can't count on fast passenger ships as a protection against submarines.

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And so the internment camp plan comes to the front in the UK. Even naturalized citizen Germans must go.

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