The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-10
PARTICULARS NOT YET ASCERTAINED IN U. $. FEAR COMPLICATIONS
Washington Startled at News of CatastrOphe-If Warning Was Not Given Will Be Parallel to Lusi- tania Incident-Develop- ments Are Awaited With Anxiety

Rome, November 9.-(Via Paris.) The Italian-American liner Ancona sunk. One hundred and fifty lives lost.
 Rome, November 9.-(Via Paris.) The Italian liner AncOna has been sunk by large submarine flying the Aus trian colors. She carried 422 passen- gers and 60 in the crew. Two hundred and seventy survivors, some of them wounded, have been landed at Bizerta. New York, November 9.-The Ancona sailed from New York for Ma ples on October IT. She had on board 1245 Italian reservists and general cargo. She arrived at Naples on Oc- tober 29. and was due to sail from Naples for New York today.
 American Passengers Aboard
 William Hartfield, general manager of the Italian line, tonight characterized the sinking of the Ancona, as an ''unneces- sary crime and absolute murder" He immediately cables the Naples office of his firm asking for all information re garding the disaster.
 | Although he had no list of her passen- gers, MT. Hartfield said ti4e Ancona on her last few voyages to this country had carried 300 or 400 passengers, among them a. number of American citizens in the first-class cabin and in the steerage. Most of her passenger list, MT. Harttleio said, had been made up of women and children. He believed she carried a large number of women and children on her present voyage.
 The Ancona, he added, carried crew of 1e0 men. At no time, said MT Hart field did the Ancona carry guns or munitions of war because it was against the rules of the company to carry war n unitions on the same vessels with pas Isengers.
 The Ancona was built at Belfast in 1908. She had gross tonnage of S2l0, was 4S2 feet in length and 5S feet beam.
 For several months before Italy's en- trance in the war the AncOna was en- gagged in carrying some Italian reservists from this country and supplies for the Italian government On one of her trips from New York tosNaples late in August last year the Ancona was stopped by the British at AGibraltar and 4 Germans and one Austrian were taken off the ship. Late last summer the Ancona left here for Italy with 75,000 bushels of wheat, 2OOo tons of hay and 200 horses for the Italian government. On the same voyage she carried 300 Italians in the steerage, who went back because it was said at the time they could not get work on the New York subway. When the Ancona left New York on her last voyage from here on October F, she was in command of Captain Pietro Massardo. All of her officers, engine room force and members of the crew were Italians who shipped rom Italy.
 The Ancona has been the Italian line service for six years and without her cargo was valued at more than l,09o,0oO. She played prominent part in the rescue of pa passengers from the burning Fabre liner Sant Anna in mid-Atlantic last Sep tember F. She came to the Sant Anna s aid and took off more than 600 paspen- gers. The Sant Anna carried more than 20O0 passengers. but succeeded in check ing the fire and proceeded to the Azores without further assistance from the Ancona.