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English: A warning issued by the Imperial German Embassy in Washington about travelling to Britain, next to an advert about RMS Lusitania.
Deutsch: Warnung der Kaiserlichen Deutschen Botschaft in Washington vor Reisen nach Großbritannien, neben einer Anzeige über die RMS Lusitania
See von Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich (1920) My Three Years in America, pp. 136−140 for context behind advert.
Date 30 April 1915
Source Robert Hunt Picture Library
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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Ocean Steamships

CUNARD
Europe via Liverpool
LUSITANIA
Fastest and Largest Steamer now in Atlantic Service Sails SATURDAY, MAY 1, 10 A.M.
Transylvania Fri., May 7, 5 P.M.
Ordina Tues., May 18, 10 A.M.
Tuscania Fri. May 21, 5 P.M.
LUSITANIA Sat. May 29, 10 A.M.
Transylvania Fri., Jun 4, 5 P.M.

Gibraltar–Genoa–Naples–Piraeus–
S.S. Carpathia, Thur., May 13, Noon

NOTICE!
TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britan and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or of any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.

IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY
Washington D. C., April 22, 1915

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