Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-11-15
j. S. SEEKS NEWS
ON ANCONA FROM
ITS OWN ENJOYS
Due to Conflict in Reports Com
ing from Vienna and
Rome.
NINE AMERICANS DEAD.
Is LATEST INFORMATION
italian Government Insists Des-
troyed Liner Received No
Warning.

Z WASHINGTON. Nov. ia ques-
tion OF fact. with contradictory Of
heial statements from the Italian and
Austrian governments. was squarely
before the United States today re-
garding the sinking of the Italian
liner Ancona. That It must secure its
own evidence in the case. regardless
OF Vienaa and Rome. was made more
evident to the administration.
Acceptance by the Austrian govern
ment of responsibility for the An
cona's attack. left this government
no alternative but to conduct future
diplomatic negotiations with Austria.
The principal fact upon which any
action by the United States musst be
predicated was still unsolved-
whether the Aneona was given proper
warning. The disputed question,
whether the Ancona's lifeboats were
fired on while being lowered and the
ship at standstill must also be
cleared up. Because of the important
differences between the italian and
Austrian official statements, the ad-
ministration is resigned to con-
siderable lapse of time before deter
mining If any action BY the American
government is demanded.
Rely on Page and PenaeId.
American Ambassadors Page and
Penfield. at Rome and Vienna, re-
spectively. will be relied on largely
to furnish the State Department
true version of the disaster. Their
reports, including the official state
ments Of Italy and Austria, viii
Do
President Wilson and Secretary Lam
sing will then form their own judg-
ment from the afiidavits of the An
cona's survivors
A new feature TO be decided Is in
depreciation and application of the
rule that sufficient time must be
given for rescue of persons aboard
liners torpedoed. Whether the forty
five minutes, alleged to have been
given the Aneona, was sufficient"
time and whether the submarine was
justified in sinking the ship before
all persons had gotten off, because of
alleged approach of another steamer.
were new and knotty problems
That the conflict in the reports of
fue governments involved and also
the Ancona's survivors might leave
the issues so mud becIouded that
this government would not be given
sufficient and definite evidence upon
which to base a protest was consid-
cred not improbable.
BY the United Press.
LONDON, Nov. 15.-Confronted by
widely varying official reports on the
sinking of the Italian liner Ancona
by submarine, impartial observers
here today were waiting to hear from
neutrals among the survivors to de-
termine what actually took place.
An official statement from the
Italian government received here to-
day contradicted in nearly every de-
tail the statement of the Austrian
admiralty that the submersible first
warned the Ancona and then gave
passengers and crew forty-fiye min
utes in which to escape
Both Official statements. it was
pointed out here, failed to touch on
important points at issue. The Aus
trian admiralty did not state specifi-
cally that the submarine was an Aus
trian, though the fact that the state
ment came from Vienna led 10 the
presumption that it was. The Italian
government, on the other hand, did
not make 1t clear whether the Ancona
ATTEMPTED to escape. as alleged by
the Austrian admiralty before she
was sunk.
DIR. CeciIe L. Greil, of New York,
and Guiseppi Torrisi, the two Ameri-
can survivors, are enroute to Rome
to report to American Ambassador
page. Pages best information is that
nine Americans lost their lives.
Ry the Associated Press.
ROME, Nov. Il. via Paris. Nov. Is,
1:l5x a. m.-The sinking of the
steamer Bosnia, following closely the
destruction of the Ancona and the
Firenze, has resulted in a determined
agitation for the adoption in the Mod
iterranean of measures similar to
those which have checked submarine
activities in the North sea.
Careful search is being made for the
missing boats of the Firenze and Bos-
MIA, but there is no longer hope of
finding additional survivors of the
Ancona. Latest official reports give
the number saved as 299 out OF a
total of 507 aboard the Ancona. Most
of the victims were steerage passen-
gers, of whom only 81 were saved.
BERLIN (by wireless to Sayville,
L. ID, Nov. 15.-The Austro- Hun
garian admiralty yesterday officially
announced that the Italian steamship
Ancona attempted to escape at full
speed. after warning shot had been
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