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More cargo evidence surfaced, yes? Interesting. . . Dubbed in Liverpool at the time “the Hun’s most ghastly crime . . .”
"The manifest listed 1,271 cases of shrapnel shells and 4,000 cases of small arms ammunition, but stories circulated citing bales of gun cotton, chemicals, and large munitions on board. These rumors strengthened the German position that the Lusitania was a legitimate target. The cargo was also cited by many as the cause of the second, more violent explosion on board. The Admiralty and the US government denied these allegations, and stubbornly stuck to the story of a second torpedo fired by the U-20:
https://exhibits.library.villanova.edu/wwi-online/articles/complex-case-rms-lusitania