Lusitania Sunk 100 Years Ago Tomorrow

• To Churchill’s disappointment, U-boats avoided attacking American ships. The next option, therefore, was a British ship sunk with Americans aboard. Churchill had Naval Intelligence submit a report on what the political results would be of such a sinking.

• The Lusitania was a legitimate target. Not only had the Admiralty outfitted her for guns – Jane’s Fighting Ships listed her as an auxiliary cruiser – she was used to ferry munitions.  On her final voyage she carried 6 million rifle cartridges, over 50 tons of shrapnel shells, and various explosives.

• The Germans tried to prevent Americans from boarding her by placing a warning in newspapers near sailing notices. Publication was delayed on orders of a State Department officer.

• Britain’s Admiralty knew the U-20 (which sank the Lusitania) was in the Irish Sea, from reports of the sub’s activities and decoded naval intercepts.

• Five days before the tragedy, Walter Hines Page, U.S. ambassador to England, wrote his son: “If a British liner full of American passengers be blown up, what will Uncle Sam do? That’s what’s going to happen.”

• Edward Mandel House, Woodrow Wilson’s notorious controller, was in England then as the President’s emissary. Just hours before the Lusitania went down, he met with Edward Grey, Britain’s foreign minister. House recorded: “We spoke of the probability of an ocean liner being sunk, and I told him if this were done, a flame of indignation would sweep across America, which would in itself probably carry us into the war.”

House and Grey then proceeded to Buckingham Palace to meet George V.  House wrote: “He [the king] said, ‘Suppose they should sink the Lusitania, with American passengers on board?’”

(Woodrow Wilson, and his handler Edward House)

• On previous voyages, destroyers had accompanied the Lusitania where submarine threats existed. On May 7, however, no destroyers were sent, though four lay idle in the nearby port of Milford Haven, and despite the U-20′s known presence (it had sunk two steamers the previous day).

• Patrick Beesly was considered the leading authority on the history of British Naval Intelligence, in which he was long an officer. In his book Room 40, Beesly wrote: “Nothing, absolutely nothing was done to ensure the liner’s safe arrival . . . . I am reluctantly driven to the conclusion that there was a conspiracy deliberately to put the Lusitania at risk in the hopes that even an abortive attack on her would bring the United States into the war. Such a conspiracy could not have been put into effect without Winston Churchill’s express permission and approval.”

• After the torpedo struck, the enormous second explosion which sank the ship originated where her munitions were stored. The Lusitania carried explosives: 46 tons of aluminum powder, some 4,000 containers of gun cotton, and 18 containers of percussion fuses.

• Hundreds of bodies washed up on the Irish shore. The Admiralty issued an order “to ensure that bodies selected for the inquest had not been killed or mutilated by means which we do not wish to be made public.”

• A formal inquiry was held before Lord Mersey, who also oversaw the Titanic inquiry. However, before it got underway, the Admiralty resolved to scapegoat the ship’s captain, William Turner.

Admiral Lord Fisher wrote: “I feel absolutely certain that Captain Turner of the Lusitania is a scoundrel and been bribed. . . .I hope that Captain Turner will be arrested immediately after the inquiry, whatever the verdict or finding may be . . . . Ought not Lord Mersey to get a hint?”

Churchill responded that “we shall pursue the Captain without check.” Richard Webb of the Admiralty’s Trade Division wrote Mersey: “I am directed by the Board of Admiralty to inform you that it is considered politically expedient that Captain Turner the master of the Lusitania be most prominently blamed for the disaster.”

• At the inquiry, Mersey quashed all evidence of the Lusitania’s contraband munitions. However, he was unwilling to crucify Turner: No substantive evidence was produced incriminating this veteran seaman, and by the time of the verdict, Churchill had been sacked from the Admiralty due to the disastrous Dardanelles campaign, so there was no longer any need to placate him. Mersey later said: “The Lusitania case was a damned dirty business.”

• The Illuminati intended the Lusitania disaster to produce a U.S. declaration war, but they had overestimated the American people’s pliability (just as when Obama sought air strikes on Syria over alleged chemical weapons use).

Woodrow Wilson therefore had to engage in a series of diplomatic jousts with Germany while the media built up “German invasion hysteria” and the banksters brought both parties in line.

Wilson finally got his war declaration, claiming Germany had broken its pledge to refrain from unrestricted submarine warfare, ignoring that Germany’s pledge had been conditional on Britain’s reciprocally observing international law – which the British government had refused to do.