Copy of POSTCARD THE LUSITANIA’S FINAL VOYAGE WITH WARNING FROM GERMAN EMBASSY

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Reproduction of a POSTCARD FROM THE LUSITANIA’S FINAL VOYAGE WITH WARNING FROM GERMAN EMBASSY
The Lusitania was notoriously sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.
That act cost 195 lives, including 128 Americans, and set off a chain of events leading to the United States’ entry into World War I.
Just a week before the Lusitania was torpedoed, the German embassy issued a warning, apparently to prospective passengers.
This card contains the warning and is postmarked May 1, 1915.
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