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Description: | Concept: recruiting, civilian suffering, atrocities / war crimes, propaganda Description: whole: the title is positioned across the top in red, with the main text placed below, in black. Further text and a subtitle, in red, are applied at the foot of the design. All are set against a plain white background and held within a broad black border. image: text only. text: REMEMBER THE 'LUSITANIA' THE JURY'S VERDICT SAYS: 'We find that the said deceased died from their prolonged immersion and exhaustion in the sea eight miles south south-west of the Old Head of Kinsale on Friday, May 7th, 1915, owing to the sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania by a torpedo fired without warning from a German submarine. 'That this appalling crime was contrary to International Law and the conventions of all civilized nations, and we therefore charge the officers of the said submarine, and the Emperor and Government of Germany, under whose orders they acted, with the crime of Wilful and Wholesale Murder before the Tribunal of the Civilized World.' IT IS YOUR DUTY TO TAKE UP THE SWORD OF JUSTICE TO AVENGE THIS DEVIL'S WORK. ENLIST TO-DAY PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE LONDON. POSTER NO. 90 PRINTED BY DAVID ALLEN AND SONS LD. HARROW. MIDDLESEX. W. 5M-5/15 | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: David Allen and Sons Ltd, Harrow, Middlesex Publisher/Sponsor: Parliamentary Recruiting Committee | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2934... | Go to resource |
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