May 7 -- 1915 -- 1918,German Soldier,World War I,WWI,Lusitania,Ship,Cannon,May

Title: May 7 -- 1915 -- 1918
Creator(s): Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist
Date Created/Published: 1918 May 7.
Summary: World War I cartoon shows a frightened German soldier (labeled 'Prussianism') on the shore, fleeing the British passenger ship Lusitania, which is rolled over on its side with its smokestacks facing the shore, resembling the open mouths of cannon. Smoke from the smokestacks forms the ghostly word 'Lusitania' in the sky. This cartoon was drawn on the third anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915 by a German submarine. The Germans justified the sinking on the grounds that the ship was carrying contraband in a war zone. Although there were 124 Americans among those losing their lives, the United States did not go to war over the incident, but when the U.S. did finally enter the war, the Lusitania sinking was remembered as one of events that turned American opinion against Germany. 'Prussianism' was a contemporary term suggesting ruthless militarism.
Notes:
Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
(DLC/PP-1945.R1.88)
mm / 860122; ljr / 030702.
Source: United States and the First World War, p. 357-58 ljr
Subjects:
Lusitania (Steamship)--1910-1920.
World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--German.
Drawings.
Editorial cartoons--American.
Bookmark /acd1996000781/PP/
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