Sent by the President of the United States, Mr. Woodrow Wilson. United States, Foreign Relations of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1915, Supplement, pp. 393 ff. The Cunard liner, Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915, with a loss of more than 1, 100 passengers and crew, including 124 Americans. The following note was sent by President Wilson under the signature of ...

William Jennings Bryan: American Protest Over the Sinking of the Lusitania Please call on the minister of foreign affairs and, after reading to him this communication, leave him with a copy. In view of recent acts of the German authorities in violation of American rights on the high seas which culminated in the torpedoing and sinking of the British steamship Lusitania on May 7, 1915, by which ...