BRITAIN'S DENIAL.
_LONDON, May 8.--The British Government today made the following
announcement:_
The statement appearing in some newspapers that the Lusitania was armed
is wholly false.
COLLECTOR MALONE'S DENIAL.
_In_ THE NEW YORK TIMES _of May 9, 1915, the following report appeared:_
Dudley Field Malone, Collector of the Port, gave an official denial
yesterday to the German charge that the Lusitania had guns mounted when
the left this port on Saturday, May 1. He said:
"This report is not correct. The Lusitania was inspected before sailing,
as is customary.
"No guns were found, mounted or unmounted, and the vessel sailed without
any armament. No merchant ship would be allowed to arm in this port and
leave the harbor."
This statement was given out by the Collector yesterday morning at his
home, 270 Riverside Drive.
Herman Winter, Assistant Manager of the Cunard Line, 22 State Street,
who was on the Lusitania for three hours before she sailed for
Liverpool, denied the report that she ever carried any guns.
"It is true," Mr. Winter said, "that she had aboard 4,200 cases of
cartridges, but they were cartridges for small arms, packed in separate
cases, and could not have injured the vessel by exploding.
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