New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-18
Drafts New Message
Giving Some Facts
on AnCOna.
VIENNA REJECTS
u. S. DEMANDS
Does Not Accede to Any,
Is Lansing's Official
Announcement.
LFrom the Tribune Bureau ]

Prom the Tribune bureau
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE Ancona
crisis has been postponed. Although
it was openly admitted at the State
Department to-day that the Aus
trian reply was unsatisfactory in
every particular, and in spite of re-
peated declarations by officials before
its receipt that the United States
would not make the Ancona a sub
ject of debate, it has been decided TO
send another note, which, so far rs
form is concerned, will be no
stronger than the first.
The second note was prepared late
to-day. 1t will renew the demands
made in the first note, none Of them.
according TO an official announcement
by Secretary Lansing, having been
complied with by the Vienna Foreign
Office.
President Wilson probably will APP
prove the form the second note shall
take tomorrow, in conference with
Secretary Lansing. The Secretary
the. will act without further sugges-
ton from the President, who will
have TO leave Washington tomorrow
night on his wedding trip.
UItlmatum shelved.
The plan TO send an ultimatum
has been shelyed, for a time at least.
Instead, the State Department will
again set forth its protest, endeav-
oring to satisfy the Austrian gov
ernment that it's first note was sound
both as to facts and law.
The official text of the Austrian
reply was considered to-day by the
President and his Cabinet. Appar-
emily the official version contained
nothing which made its meaning
radically different from the unofficial
version cabled in news dispatches
from London.
After the Cabinet meeting Mr..
Lansing announced that none Of the
demands made by the United States
had been acceded to. 1t was ex-
planned that the reply suggested
further communication on the sub
ject and more specific information in
support of the charges made by the
United States.
Official translation, Mr.. Lansing
said, made the meaning of the Aus
tro-Hungarian government. per-
fectly clear. The Secretary pre-
viously had declared the unofficial
version TO. be vague. Slight changes
caused by variations in translation
existed between the two versions, he
said, after seeing the official text, but
the meaning in a broad sense was
the same.
Answer Il Unacceptable.
Such a rejoiRder is wholly unsatis-
factory and unacceptable to the Ameri-
can government, and increases the
gravity of the situation between the
two nations.
In regard 10 the second note, Secre-
tary Lansing and officials were reticent.
II was said, however. that the United
States might give some of the facts
asked for, though it would not, under
any consideration. enter into an ex-
tended discussion Of details. The
United States expects its demands 10
be promptly complied with, and such
apparent procrastination as officials
consider Austris-Hungary exhibited in
answering the original inquiry for in
formation, submitted soon after the
Ancona disaster, will not be allowed to
pass without action.
State Department officials still insist
that there will be no back-down and
that unless Austria meets the American
demands in every particular break
in relations is inevitable. Hope Is ex-
pressed, however, that another note
from this government will persuade
Vienna of the justice Of the American
position and result in an amicsble ad-
justment Of the difficulty.
Will Go Next Week.
The second American note probably
will be dispatched during the latter
part o: next week. Allowing two days
for transmission each way and week
for the Austrian government to frame
its reply, vienna's answer VIII pre-
sumably arrive about the time OF the
Presidents return from his wedding
trim. In this way, the administration
believes, it will be UNNECESSARY Tor the