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Topical Budget 246-1: Lusitania Day (1916)
 

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Main title. "Czechs in native dress, and survivors of Germany's greatest crime of piracy, marching from the Embankment to Hyde Park". A marching band followed by people carrying banners including a large one for the `British Empire Union', followed by a large model of the Lusitania in a glass case carried on a cart. People process behind banners, including two reading 'Hang all pro-German peacemongers' and 'With deepest sorrow the London Czechs remember Lusitania'.