It has been a while since the German U-boats have outraged the paper, but the sinking of an Italian liner brings a sense of familiarity for those who have read about dastardly outrages by German pirates over the past year, both in the horror of what happened and the reaction to it. Although the offending submarine flew an Austrian flag, the Allies were in little doubt it was another expression of brutal German “Kultur” at work, rather than something perpetrated by their allies.