28 AUGUST 1915, Page 2

Again, the numbers saved showed that there was '" ample

time" to lower the beats, and if lives were lost it must have been because the boats were unseaworthy. Finally, the fact

that lifebelts were ready on deck showed that the captain, seduced by a high money bribe, meant to rain any submarine he saw ! In short, having rigged up one set of excuses to justify themselves in the case of the 'Lusitania,' the Germans now with the same "ghastly humour "—as the Manchester Guardian well calls it—proceed to invent an entirely different, but equally impudent, set to justify their latest outrage.