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SOS: Send out Soldiers
Propaganda leaflet evoking the memory of the Lusitania to encourage enlistment in the 123 rd Battalion. The May 1915 sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-Boat caused 1,200 civilian deaths and sparked widespread outrage.

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