The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-12-16
u. S. SENDS NOTE
ON AUSTRIAN ACT
Makes Formal Demand For
Denouncement of Ancona At
tack and Punishment of
Submarine Commander.

Washington. D. c.. Dec. l4.-The ext
of the American note to Hun
gary regarding the sinking of the Ital-
ian steamship Ancona, made public
last night, reveals a formal demand by
the United States for prompt %denounce-
ment Of the illegal and indefensible''
act, for punishment of the submarine
commander and for reparation by the
payment of indemnity for the killing
and iniuring of innocent American
/ citizens.
The note follows:
The Secretary of State to Ambas-
sador Penfield-Department of State,
Washington, D. c., Dec. 6, 1915.-Please
deliver a note to the minister of foreign
affairs t%eXtually as follows:
Reliable information obtained from
American n other survivors who
We're passengers on the steamship An
coma shows that on November Z a sub
flag fired a solid shot toward the
| steamship; that thereupon the Ancona
attempted to escape, but, being over
hauled by the submarine, she stopped;
that after a brief period, and before the
crew and passengers We're all able to
take to the boats, the sumbarine fired
a number of shells at the vessel and
finally torpedoed n sank here while
there We're yet many passengers on
board, and that by gunfire and flound-
persons lost their lives or were SER
iously injured, among whom were citi-
zens of the United States.
Shel!ed and Topedced.
The public statement of the Austro-
Hungarian admiralty has been brought
to the attention of the government of
the United States and received careful
ron j6nrDt inn .FNhSc ctotn,,&n+ r,l-
stantially confirms the personal lee
laration of the survivors. as it admits
that the Ancona, after being shelled,
was torpedoed and sun while persons
We're still on board.
THE AuStro-Hungarian government
has been advised through the cor
~respcndence which has passed between
the United States and Germany of the
attitude of the government of the
United States as to the use of subma-
rines in attacking vessels of commerce
ana the acquiescence of Germany in
that attitude, yet with full knowledge
on the part of the Austro-Hungarian
/ government of the views of the gov
eminent of the United States. as ex-
pressed IN no uncertain terms tic the
ally of Austria-Hungary, the
der of the submarine which attacked
the Ancona failed to put in a place of
safety the crew and passengers of the
vessel which they %purposed to destroy,
ileiS PiSod III Lie lllIpUS-
sibility of taking it into port as a prize
of war.
''The government of the United
States considers that the commander
violated he principles of international
law and of humanity by Smelling and
~torpedoing the Ancona before the per-
sons on board had been put in a place
of safety or even given sufficient time
to leave the vessel. The conduct of
the commander can only be charac-
terized as wanton slaughter of defense
less noncombatants since, at the time
when the vessel was shelled and tor
pedoed, h was not, it appears, re-
sisttng Or attempting to escape, and
no other reason is sufficient to excuse
such an attack, not even the posi-
bility OF rescue.
The United States Demand.
The government of the United
States is forced, therefore, to conclude
either that the commander of the sub
marine acted in violation of his in
structions or that the imperial and
royal government failed to issue in
structicn to the commanders of its
submarines in accordance with the law
of nations and the principles of hui
manity. The government of the Uni
ted States is unwilling to believe the
latter alternative and to credit the
Austro-Hungarian government with an
intention to permit it's submarines to
0SSoN NY NiS - VI HELPLESS men, Won-
en- and children. 1t prefers to believe
that the commander of the submarine
committed this outrage without au-
thority contrary to the general or
special instructions which he had re-
ceived.
AS he good relations of the two
countries must rest upon a common 70
gard for law and HUMANITY. the gov.
eminent of the United States cannot
be expected to do otherwise than - ia
raand that The imperial and ROYAL gov.
eminent denounce the sinking Of tho
Anccna rs In Illegal and inuefensib,e
act sat the officer who perpetrntad
thu ceed be punished, and that renars.
ton by the payment of an indemnitv
he made for the citizens of the TJnitaa
iStates who We're Killed or ini,,red by
he attack o the vessel.
The government OF t,a I4,;+as
States expects that the Austro-Hun1
garian government. appreciatjng fha
gravity OF the case. will accede Ia its
demand promptly and it rests this ax-
pectatlon on the belief that the Aus
ro-Hungarian government viii not
sanctien or defend an act which is eon-
denned by the world as inhumane and
7arbarous, which is abhorrent to ali
.iviiized nations and which has causa.3
the death or innocent American cit,- ,
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