A really lovely & perfect day. I have a morning off & have been to service at St Glaves.

On Friday evening we heard the news that the Lusitania had been torpedoed & has sunk at 2.30, but it was not until Sat morning that further details were known. She went down near Cork & great loss of life is feared. A useless & wicked crime, & one that is of no military importance.

I was saying yest that if the Germans continue to use these asphyxiating gases, which are strictly against the Hague Convention, the French will bring into action their fiendish gun, a shot from which kills every living thing within 400 yards.

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