For a little over eight months we watched it, when, on April 22nd, 1915, there appeared in the New York papers an advertisement stating that the great passenger ship "LUSITANIA" would sail on the 7th of May for Liverpool. In the next column, in equally conspicuous type, appeared a sinister warning to Americans, telling them to keep off the seas at peril of their lives. This was signed, "IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY, Washington, D.C." On May 7th came the fulfilment of the threat, and we awoke to the fact that we were not an audience looking at a tragedy, but the victims of the tragedy itself. Not until then was it brought home to us that our good German friends, whom we thought we knew so well, had been inoculated with the virus of a Junker madness, and that we were dealing with a people who had cast from them every restraint of fair fighting and had become the outlaw nation of the world. In the following pictures the Artist has attempted to show "Why we are at war." --W. A. ROGERS. With Junker thoroughness, Dr. Bernhard Dernberg had been sent here to suggest excuses for the brutal assassination of Belgium. [Illustration: Verdict--"Carelessness on the part of the deceased."] The first woman to fall a victim to the "U" boat piracy was a stewardess on an English merchant ship sunk without warning in 1914. [Illustration: The first great German "U" boat Victory.] The Rheims Cathedral belonged to the world. The product of hundreds of years of consecrated labor, its destruction by a nation devoted to "Kultur" is one of the primary reasons why we are at war. [Illustration: Modern German Gothic Art.] The blackest count in the indictment against Germany is foreshadowed in the warning by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington to all Americans, of the crime which was to follow on May 7th, 1915. [Illustration: The Announcement.] On May 7th, 1915, by order of the Imperial German Government, a "U" boat torpedoed the great ship Lusitania without warning, drowning over 1,200 passengers. A sea crime unequaled by any pirate known to history. [Illustration: A SILENT COMPANY--Yet its voice is heard above the roar of Cannon.] Immediately after the sinking of the Lusitania, hired perjurers swore that the ship carried guns on her forward deck when she sailed from the port of New York. [Illustration: Those "cannon on the forward deck."] Germany with brazen stupidity insisted on being told the facts--facts which she knew in far greater detail than did the Government of the United States. [Illustration: Here are "the facts."] A few days after the crime of May 7th, the Count Von Bernstorff requested an audience with the President. He understood he was to see the President alone. [Illustration: He had expected to find the President alone.] Dr. Bernhard Dernberg became exceedingly tiresome with his hypocritical professions of affection for the Belgians. His propaganda was effective but not in the way he intended.