New Britain herald., 1915-12-22
NEW ANCONA NOTE
 ARRIVES IN AUSTRIA
American Document Delivered to ~ Foreign Ministry at Vienna
MADE PUBLIC HERE TODAY

Declares Admission That Liner Was
 Torpedoed After She Had Stopped
 and While Passengers Were Aboard
 Is Sufficient for Disavowal of Act.
 London, Dec. 22, 1856 p. m-A
 Vienna telegram forwarded from Am says that delivery to the Austrian ~soreign ministry of the second An coma note from the United States is announced by the Neue Freie Presse
 Synopsis of Reply.
 Washington, Dec. 22.-The reply of tho United States to Austria's note on the destruction of the Italian lin- CT Ancona declares that the official xa4mission by the Austrian admiralty that the liner was torpedoed after she had stopped and while passen- gers still were aboard, alone is suf- ticient for the American demand for dlsavowal, reparation and punishment ofpthe submarine commander.
 Secretary 'Lansing's second note already probably in the. hands of the Austrian foreign minister and made pupnc here today, renews the de- nands of the United States, and says that the details to which Austria al- luded in her reply to the first Amer 1can communication in no way essen tlls to the discussion. It emphasizes that the continuance of good relations between the two countries depends upon the action of the Austrian gov ernment. The full text of the note WIleh is addressed to American am- bassador Penfield follows:
 Careful Consideration.
 The 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. 15, 1915, and trans nlltted to Washington, and has given the note Immediate and careful con- sieSration.
 On November 15,, 1915 Baron Zwiedienek, the charge, d. affaires of the imperial and royal government at Washington, transmitted to the de- 1 partment of state a report of the Austro-Hungarian admiralty with re- l gard to the sinking of the steamship ] Ancona, in which it was admitted that l the vessel was torpedoed after her 1 enVsnes had been stopped and when passengers were still on board, This admission alone is, in the view of the government of the United States suf- ficient to fix upon the commander of the submarine which fired the tor pedo the responsibility for having will | fully violated the recognized law of nations and entirely disregarded those hunlane principles which every bel lisNent should observe in the con- duct of war at sea. In view of these admitted circumstances the govern ment of the United States feels justi- fled in holding that the details of the sinking of the Ancona the weight and character of the additional tes- timony corroborating the admiralty's repor* and the number of Americans killed or injured, are in no way es- sential matters of discussion. The culpability of the commander is in Iany case established, and the undis- yputed fact is that citizens of the United States were killed, injured or put in jeopardy by his lawless act. The rules of international law and the principles of humanity which were (thus wilfully violated by the com- |manyer of the submarine have been [so long and so universally recognized land are so manifest from the stand kpoint of right and justice that the gov ernment of the United States does not feel called upon to debate them and does not understand that the imperial hnd royal government questions or disputes them.
 TRe government of the United States therefore finds no other course open to it but to hold the imperial and royal government responsible for he act of it's naval commander and TO renew the definite but respectful demands made in it's communication Aof the sixth of December 1915. It Esincefly hopes that the foregoing kStatenfent of it's position will enable ne imperial and royal government l ) perceive the justice of those de- hands and to comply with them in rle same spirit of frankness and with he same concern for the good rela- kions now existing between the United ptates and Austria Hungary which 5rosApted the government of the FJnitAd States to make them
 GOING TO CANADA.