Germany Justifies the Deed [It should be borne in mind that the subjoined official and semi-official out-givings on behalf of Germany, announcing the destruction of the Lusitania, justifying it, striving to implicate the British Government, and to some extent modifying the original war zone proclamation of Feb. 18, 1915, were published prior to the receipt by the German Imperial Government of President Wilson's note of May 13. British official rejoinders and a statement by the Collector of the Port of New York are included under this head.--Editor.] GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. _BERLIN, May 8, (via wireless to London Sunday, May 9.)--The following official communication was issued tonight:_ The Cunard liner Lusitania was yesterday torpedoed by a German submarine and sank. The Lusitania was naturally armed with guns, as were recently most of the English mercantile steamers. Moreover, as is well known here, she had large quantities of war material in her cargo. Her owners, therefore, knew to what danger the passengers were exposed. They alone bear all the responsibility for what has happened. Germany, on her part, left nothing undone to repeatedly and strongly warn them. The Imperial Ambassador in Washington even went so far as to make a public warning, so as to draw attention to this danger. The English press sneered at the warning and relied on the protection of the British fleet to safeguard Atlantic traffic. BRITAIN'S DENIAL. _LONDON, May 8.--The British Government today made the following announcement:_ The statement appearing in some newspapers that the Lusitania was armed is wholly false. COLLECTOR MALONE'S DENIAL. _In_ THE NEW YORK TIMES _of May 9, 1915, the following report appeared:_ Dudley Field Malone, Collector of the Port, gave an official denial yesterday to the German charge that the Lusitania had guns mounted when the left this port on Saturday, May 1. He said: "This report is not correct. The Lusitania was inspected before sailing, as is customary. "No guns were found, mounted or unmounted, and the vessel sailed without any armament. No merchant ship would be allowed to arm in this port and leave the harbor." This statement was given out by the Collector yesterday morning at his home, 270 Riverside Drive. Herman Winter, Assistant Manager of the Cunard Line, 22 State Street, who was on the Lusitania for three hours before she sailed for Liverpool, denied the report that she ever carried any guns. "It is true," Mr. Winter said, "that she had aboard 4,200 cases of cartridges, but they were cartridges for small arms, packed in separate cases, and could not have injured the vessel by exploding. They certainly do not come under the classification of ammunition. The United States authorities would not permit us to carry ammunition, classified as such by the military authorities, on a passenger liner. For years we have been sending small-arms cartridges abroad on the Lusitania."