Passagiere ein Schutz für die Kontrebande, für die lohnende Waffenlieferung, die an ihrem Bord waren, bilden würden. Die “Deutsche Tageszeitung” hat recht, wenn sie sagt: “Die an Bord der ‘Lusitania’ untergegangenen Passagiere sind, wenn man das Ding beim rechten Namen nennen will, ein Opfer grossbritannischer Frivolität und Habsucht.” * * * * * arms which were on board. The _Deutsche Tageszeitung_ is right in saying: “The passengers who went down with the Lusitania are, if we wish to call things by their right names, a sacrifice to Great Britain’s frivolity and avarice.” PART IV I wrote parts I and II before reading a word of the Official Inquiry held by Lord Mersey and his Assessors, or even the meagre newspaper accounts of the investigation that were published in the London papers while I was there. I wished to write with an open mind and did not want to know a word of the Court’s Findings until I had finished mine. I held my own little Court of Inquiry, with my own eyes and brain offering the evidence. My findings as written in the first two parts are as diametrically opposite from those of Lord Mersey’s Court as they well could be. I have printed mine in full and so I now do the same to his. LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP “LUSITANIA” _REPORT of a Formal Investigation into the circumstances attending the foundering on the 7th of May, 1915, of the British Steamship “Lusitania” of Liverpool, after being torpedoed off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland._ REPORT OF THE COURT The Court, having carefully enquired into the circumstances of the above mentioned disaster, finds, that the loss of the said ship and lives was due to damage caused to the said ship by torpedoes fired by a submarine of German nationality whereby the ship sank. In the opinion of the Court the act was done not merely with the intention of sinking the ship, but also with the intention of destroying the lives of the people on board. Dated this seventeenth day of July, 1915. MERSEY, _Wreck Commissioner._ We concur in the above Report, F. S. INGLEFIELD } H. J. HEARN } _Assessors._ DAVID DAVIES } JOHN SPEDDING } THE LUSITANIA’S LAST VOYAGE INTRODUCTION On the 18th of May, 1915, the Board of Trade required that a Formal Investigation of the circumstances attending the loss of the “Lusitania” should be held, and the Court accordingly commenced to sit on the 15th of June. There were six sittings, some of which were public and some of which were in camera. Thirty-six witnesses were examined, and a number of documents were produced. THE SHIP