The _Lusitania_ headed northeast all morning. At 1:20 o'clock she ran the gauntlet of two submarines; a torpedo was released, and found its target. The ghastly details of what followed have been told so fully, so vividly, and so appealingly that they need not be repeated here. They made themselves heard around a world that was already vibrant with uproar. The first sodden tremor of the ship told Captain Turner that he had been betrayed. He described later at the Coroner's inquest how he had received orders supposedly from the Admiralty, and had set out to obey them. He produced the copy of those orders, but of the genuine message from the Admiralty he knew nothing. Asked if he had made special application for a convoy, he said: "No, I left that to them. It is their business, not mine. I simply had to carry out my orders to go, and I would do it again." America was in a turmoil. Germany had presumed too far; she--it is almost incongruous to call Germany "she"--had believed that her warning declaration that the waters about the British isles were a war zone would be respected, or if not respected, would serve as an excuse, and that the torpedoing would be accepted calmly by America. She was not prepared for Colonel Roosevelt's burning denunciation of this act of common piracy, nor for the angry editorial remonstrance of a people outraged at the loss of one hundred and fourteen American lives. But Germany recovered her presumptuous poise swiftly, and while ugly medals were being struck off commemorating the German triumph over the ship, and while destroyers were still searching British waters for the bodies of the dead, she sent a note of commiseration and sympathy to Washington. Three days later--on May 13--the United States conveyed to Berlin a strong protest against the submarine policy which had culminated in the sinking of the _Lusitania_. Three days before Germany replied on May 28, a submarine attacked an American steamer, the _Nebraska_, and the Imperial government followed up its first reply with a supplementary note justifying its previous attacks upon the American vessels _Gulflight_ and _Cushing_. Germany's fat was in the fire.