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    Even during the war years, there were still many exchanges of people between the two sides of the Atlantic, because the war brought about a large number of transactions, and a large number of transactions could not be solved by just the exchange of goods, they also necessarily involved the exchange of people.  Therefore, there are still transoceanic passenger ships on the Atlantic Ocean.  And, in a sense, passenger ships are much safer than cargo ships.  This is partly because passenger ships are faster and naturally harder to ambush.  As early as before the war, when the average speed of cargo ships on the Atlantic was only thirteen or four knots, the speed of passenger ships was already 20 knots.  And this speed is faster than the maximum speed of a submarine on the water.  Therefore, unless a passenger ship accidentally bumps into the submarine's attack range, it will be difficult for the submarine to attack such a target.  And the sea is so big, the chance of hitting a submarine within its pitiful killing range is actually quite low.  &nbNovelsp;Besides, German submarines generally do not attack passenger ships because they are worried that attacking passenger ships will overly stimulate the Americans.  Even after unrestricted submarine warfare was announced, the German Navy's submarines would still open up to the passenger ship network, because there would not be much supplies on them, and sinking them would have limited meaning. On the contrary, it would also bring a large number of  Heaps of trouble.  Although it is almost a foregone conclusion that the Americans will join the war, it will always be a little better for Germany if the Americans join the war one day later.  Therefore, under normal circumstances, German submarines would not attack passenger ships at all.  On June 20, 1917 (several months later than the United States entered the war in history), a passenger ship called the "Ray" set sail from New York Harbor to England.  This is a passenger ship of about 8,000 tons. There are hundreds of passengers on board, some are businessmen, and a group are medical staff from the so-called "Doctors Without Borders" organization.  After the war broke out, as casualties increased, a large number of medical staff were requisitioned by the army. Therefore, ordinary hospitals in British and French cities were extremely short of medical staff.  So, they sent invitations to doctors and nurses in the New World.  They promised to give these doctors and nurses higher wages, and they promised not to let them go to the battlefield.  And they are not picky about the qualifications of their doctors.  For the sake of high wages, many doctors, especially those who have just graduated from medical school, are often willing to work in the UK and France for a period of time. Firstly, they can make some money, and secondly, they can  Easily earn medical qualifications and more experience.  Sabal is also on this boat. He is an ophthalmologist who has just received his diploma. He has not found a good job in New York because better hospitals have very high requirements for doctors. A newly graduated ophthalmologist has not found a good job in New York.  The little guy, at best, does odd jobs for others.  Of course, you can still become an attending doctor or even a higher-level doctor by starting from doing odd jobs and gradually gaining qualifications.  However, Sabal could not wait that long.  Because in order to study, he took on a lot of loans. If he could only do odd jobs in a large hospital, the pressure to repay the loans would be very great.  If you go to a small hospital, your income may be better at first, but staying in a small hospital is very detrimental to the improvement of a doctor's art, because the improvement of a doctor's medical skills largely comes from the accumulation of experience, and in a small hospital  Among them, the treatment methods are insufficient, and the accumulation of experience is naturally poor.  Sabal, who was quite ambitious, naturally did not want to waste his youth in a small hospital, so in order to repay the loan and for future development, Sabal set his mind and, with the help of several former seniors, passed the "nothing"  Doctors Without Borders signed a contract with a London hospital and got on board.  It is now the fourth night after the Glory went to sea.  Sabal and several colleagues were squatting in the cabin playing poker when they suddenly heard a loud noise, and at the same time the playing cards on the small table in front of them flew up. Along with the playing cards, several people sitting around playing poker  People, including Sabal, were also knocked to the ground.  "What's going on?" Sabal thought as he struggled to get up from the ground.  The sudden incident just now made his head feel a little dizzy, and his vestibular function seemed to be affected a little, so that he now had to hold on to the wall to stand steady.  "Crack!" A cracking sound sounded from above Shabar's head. Shabar looked up and saw that the ceiling above his head was actually cracking.  "Run! This ship must have been attacked by the Germans and is going to sink!" Sabal shouted to the colleagues who were playing poker with him and had just gotten up. Then, he wanted to open the door and go out.  .  After pulling it, Sabal realized that the door could not be opened.  "Asshole, who locked the door!" Sabal shouted angrily.  "No, the door frame is deformed!" Another doctor named Benson shouted with a trembling voice.  "No matter what happened to him, help him quickly! Otherwise, we will all die here!" Sabal shouted.  &nbspSeveral people swarmed up and pulled the door hard together. The strength of these grown men was pretty good, but with a click, half of the door collapsed by them.  ¡°Quick, get out quickly and get on the deck, the ship is going to sink!¡± Sabal noticed that the floor seemed to be tilting.  The others didn¡¯t need to say hello and fled in a hurry.  The ship tilted very quickly. By the time a few people ran onto the deck, the deck had tilted more than thirty degrees, making it almost impossible for people to stand on it.  And the ship is tilting faster.  The crew had already thrown the lifeboat directly into the sea and the ship was about to sink. It was too late to release the lifeboat in the usual way.  "Jump into the water, swim over by yourselves, and get as far away from the ship as possible." A sailor shouted to them, so everyone on the deck jumped into the sea like dumplings, and were then caught by the sailors driving the lifeboat.  Caught it up.  Sabal swam to a lifeboat and a sailor pulled him out.  Sabal had just taken a breath when he heard the people on the lifeboat screaming. He looked in the direction of the ship and saw that the ship suddenly flipped over and flipped upside down on the sea.  ¡­ ¡°Yesterday, an American passenger ship was attacked in a shameful manner in the Atlantic Ocean. I regret to tell you that many Americans lost their lives in this attack. Prior to this, the Government of the United States had repeatedly submitted to the Government of the German Empire  Protests were made, asking them to stop their barbaric and unrestricted submarine warfare, but obviously, the goodwill of the United States was regarded as weakness. Instead of stopping their evil deeds, the German Navy only intensified their evil deeds" The voice of President Wilson's speech came from the radio.  He came out, reached out with one hand, pinched the knob of the radio, and turned it off.  "Your Majesty, we did not do this. We have no submarines in any area." General Scheer said to Emperor William II with a pale face, "This must be done by the British, they framed us!" "  Haha" Emperor William II laughed instead, "Maybe the Americans themselves did it? But now, these words are useless. The Americans are determined to go to war with us, and there is nothing to say.  "It's ready. General Scheer, how is the production of the new submarines?" "Your Majesty, one hundred and thirty have been produced," General Scheer replied.  "Can sending these submarines cut off the Atlantic route?" William II asked.  "Your Majesty, it is impossible to completely cut off, but it will definitely shrink their transportation volume to the point where they can no longer support it. Your Majesty, even if the Americans want to declare war on us, it will take at least eight people to prepare.  More than three months, but Britain and France will definitely not be able to survive for eight months under our attack." After hearing this assurance, Emperor William II seemed to be in a better mood.  So he reached out and turned on the radio, and President Wilson's last words came out from there: "I ask Congress to grant me authority to declare that from today on, there is war between the United States of America and the German Empire.  state."    ¡­¡­
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