Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-23
SECOND U. s. ANCONA
 NOTES REITERATES
 DEMANDS OF FORMER
Austrian AdmiraIty'S Admission That Submarine Fired After AnCona Stopped. Sufficient Grounds for All Demands.

WASHINGTON, Dec 22.--The reply Of the United States to Austria's note on the destruction of the Italian liner Ancona, declares that the official ad- mission Of the Austrian admiralty that the liner was torpedoed after she had stopped and while passengers still were aboard alone is sufficient for the American demand for disavowal, rep aration and punishment of the submar- me commander.
 Secretary Lansing's second note, all
 ready probably in the hands of the Austrian foreign minister, and made public here today, renews the demands of the United States and said the de- ! ,ails to which Austria refers in her re ! ply to the first American communica- : ton, are in no way essential to the { discussion. lt emphasizes that contin- uance Of the relations between the two l countries depends upon the action of the Austrian government The full ,ext of the note which is addressed to l American Ambassador Penheld, fol- lows:
 'Thc government of the United States has received the note of Your . Excellency relative to the sinking of the Ancona which was delivered at Vienna on Dec. 5, 1915, and transmit
 ed to Washington and has given the note immediate and careful consider ation.
 "On November 15, 1915, Baron Zwie- dinek, the charge d'affaires of the i'm perial and royal government at Wash
 ngton, transmitted to the Department .of State a report of the Austro-H Hunga rian Admiralty with regard to the sink ing of the steamship Ancona, in which
 it was admitted hat the vessel was torpedoed after her engines had beer
 stopped and when passengers wer, still on board This admission alone
 is in the view of the government O
 the United States, sufficient to fix tn,
 commander of the submarine whicl
 fired the torpedo, with tn responsibii
 y for having willfuly violated th
 recognized law of nations and entirel.
 iisregarded those humane prinsiple
 which every belligerent should ot Nserve in the conduct of war at ses
 In view of these admitted circumstan
 es the government of the Unite
 States feels justified in holding tha
 -he details of the sinking of the Ar
 coma, the weight and character of tn
 additional testimony corroborating th
 fvrf9 E,F.r.
 Americans killed or injured are in n
 way essential matters of discussion II The culpability of the commander in any case established. and the undi puted fact that the citizens of the UT U tied States were killed, injured or pu l- r jeopardy by his lawless act u 'The rules of international law an he principles of humanity which wer .hus wilfully violated by the comman E CT of the submarine have been SO lon e and SO universally recognized and ar r. 90 manifest fro mthe standpoint (
 Of he United States does not fel
 called on to debate them and does n,
 understand that the imperial and roy;
 government questions or disput, M hem.
 A "The government of the Unite I States therefore finds no other cour.
 open to it but to hold the imperial an
 royal government responsible for tf act of it's naval commander and to r 'o new the definite but respectful d
 mands made in its communication the sixth of December, 1915. It si iy cerely hopes that the foregoing stat " ment of its position will enable tl a imperial and royal government 10 pc 'o ceive the justice of those demands ar 'H O comply with them in the same spi io it of frankness and with the same e 'e corn for the good relations now exis n ing between the United States al ' Austria-Hungary which prompted q 'e government of the United States '" make them.