The Telegraph’s indignation over the sinking of the liner Falaba showed little sign of adapting. With the inquest taking place for the victims (page 9), it wasn’t mincing its words in a leader on page 8. “These wholly innocent and defenceless women … were assassinated with deliberate and criminal intent … this deed stands out, naked and unmistakable, as an act of calculated and cold-blooded slaughter of entirely helpless fellow-creatures; an act for which not the faintest colour of justification can be claimed on the score of military necessity.” To rub the point in, page 10 carries American disgust of the act.