Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-31
ANCONA DEMANDS
REPEATED IN NEW NOTE BY SEC
RETARY LANSING DELIVERED
AT VIENNA Vi
u. S. Informs Austria That Its Own
Admiralty Statement conviets It OF
Law Violation and Question VIII
Not Be Debated Further.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-The following ia the
text of the American note to Austria
on the Ancona incident:
"The Secretary of State to Ambassa-
dor Penfield:
Department of State. Washington,
d. c., Dec. 10, 1915.
"You are instructed to address
note to the stroHungarian minis
ter OF foreign affairs textually as fol-
lows:
"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. Is. 1915, and trans
mitted to Washington, and has given
the note immediate and careful con-
sideration.
ION Nov. 15. 1916. Baron Zwiedinek.
the charge d'affaires of the imperial
and royal government at Washington.
transmitted to the Department or
State report of the Austro-Hungar-
ian admiralty with regard to the sink
ing OF the steamship Ancona. in
which 1t was admitted that the vessel
was torpedoed after her engines had
been stopped and when passengers
were still on board. This admission
alone Is, in the view of the govern
ment of the United States. sufficient
to fix upon the commander OF the
submarine which fired the torpedo the
responsibility for having wilfully vio'
lated the recognized law OF nations
and entirely disregarded those hu.
name principles which every belliger.
ent should observe in the conduct OF
war at sea
"In view of these admitted circum-
stances, the government OF the United
States feels Justified in holding that
the details Of the sinking OF the An
coma, the weight and character Of the
additional testimony corroborating the
admiralty's report and the number OF
Americans killed or injured are In no
way essential matters of discussion.
"The culpability OF the commander
is in any case established and the
undisputed fact is that the citizens OF
the United States were killed. injured
or put in jeopardy by this lawless act
"The rules of international law and
the principles of humanity which
were thus wilfully violated by the
commander of the submarine have
been so long and SO universally rec
ognized and are SO manifest from the
standpoint of right and justice that
| the government OF the United States
does not feel called upon to debate
them and does not understand thai
the imperial and royal government
questions or disputes them.
"The government of the United
States therefore finds no Other
course open to It but to hold the i'm
perial and royal government respon
sible for the act Of its naval com
mander and to renew the definite but
respectful demands made in its com
munication of the 9Th OF December
1915. 1t sincerely hopes that the fore
going statemen. OF its position will
enable the imperial and royal govern
| ment to perceive the Justice of those
| demands and to comply with them In
tho same spirit Of frankness and with
the same concern for the good rela
tions now existing between the United
States and Austria. Hungary which
prompted the government OF the
United States to make them.
LANSING"