Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-12-27
Our Consul at Port Sal
Confirms Earlier RepoI
on YaSaka Maru.
ONLY PERISCOPE SEEN;
NO ATTEMPT TO EScAI
Nationality of Submarine 4
knOwn-Di Diplomatic Represe
tations Certain TO Be Made

WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.--Anasrsa
Consul Bristow at Port said eab
today that no warning was given
Japanese liner Yasaka 8faru bsf'
she was torpodeod and sunk II
Mediterranean last Tuesday BY : =
marine Of unestablished nationsI 1.
The liner, he added, made no aztsn
to escape.
The consul's dispatch. uhici 81
Ia response 10 Secretary Laus.n
call for reports on the disaster. \
the first official information ca
incident which probably vii be
subject Of further diplomatic q
respondence with the Teutonic pow {
Today's report said The sssi,nza
was not seen until after the linef f
been torpodeod and that then. s.
her periscope was visible. The &|
sank in forty-nine minutes ana
survivors = 120 passengers. ifelsse|
an American, W. j. Leigh and he
men Of the crew-were picked s.,
French cruiser and landed 1t p
said from where the first reports
the sinking came last week.
To Investigate the ssnstn<.
The general assumption q sAa.
submarine must have been fsesissa \,
Austrian Renewed efforts uIil
made to determine it's nationality 4
instructions to that effect nt<sfs:4|
viii be sent out today by lie s.
department.
II II can gather the necessary inf
nation on which to procae6
tinted States is prepared "a inch
the incident in It's dipiaila{ia Ii F2t
Henfations against the siiilfIs1<. .5E II
comnatant ships without warn is.z
The outcome Of the Xasaka 81
ease Is. generaliy regarded III a1Ii.:.
ana dlpiaEna.tsa-1at-sez sstiz&s.s=,<
with wide Possibilities ressa 4.
Japan's future course N the wac.
II has been Suggested that
might answer the cilalieue.f ~
shipping by wide parfici z. .s.s,'
the war, even to the extent f.f = y.
part in the operations IN Etirfz.=z
As Germany has already aif|s..
sarances that her sllbnaarin ~
manders were under instr41ciiEs.sz
10 attack liners without 4xzrnI|
tnere was a disposition 10 believe
ATTACKING boat was an Austrian.
#
Further Complications Arize.
II that assumption proves true Il
feared the situation over the sI,,i..
OF the Italian liner Ancona MI;
further complicated and the sisis
matte correspondence with 4s,sl
viii be hroadened to take il the 81
eral subject of attack without Hf
ing. as It did in the last staees ii
negotiations with Germany.
Unofficial reports OF favorable
ply by the Vienna foreign osfire - +
last Ancona note have mot served
alter the attitude of the state dsna'
ment in the Ancona case. And ~.
are direct indications that noti.in:. +
meeting the demands OF The I.{,i
States fully win leave dinloma3ie
lattons between the two Countries
impaired
The word that the reply w5fI
guided with concern for the good ~
tons" between the tpso. Countries.
ncials take 1t, means that AiIstf
Hungary probably expects more afr
matte correspondence upon the St
ject- The United States Is .5i<
clined to enter into any such nasoi
tions.
Should it develop that an Ausi,
submarine torpedoed the Fass
Maru without warning, the Nie,
Foreign Office undouhteday VIII
asked TO disavow the act and to
assurances to govern future cofd
of her submarine warfare. As Il
done in the correspondence with 81
many, the United States win hoids
the position that if Submarines fats
give warning their comtnanderS q
not be sure that an American life
not be placed in danger.
The state department. has not ~
advised what instructions. il
have been given commanders OF A.
ro-Hungarian submarines.
BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Japan, Dec. DefaX
advices received here today from ri
Said concerning the sinking of
Yasaka Naru corrobora1e preVifI
statements that the steamship
torpedoed without warning Il IL s
that she was attacked at z;35 b ID.
submarine whose preSehue had
been observed. No A;lr Isl
Shortly after the torpedo Was d
charged two periscopes. one ieas
one short, appeared aboVc the N4|
within 400 feet of the steamship. r i
moved 10 a position of the ~Eern
the starboard side. the Port said
vices relate. as though ready 10
charge a second torpedo il neEes4a
After the YasaiSa Maru sank q :
ming tower was visible for "a
time at point about a mlle askax1
Boats Tied Toxefhef.
The report describes the rnatnes
which all on board the stea<iS1
entered the boats safely l..tis Batj
been accomplished within len mind
OF the time the torpedo sas
charged. The captain caused
boats to be tied together.
Sails were hoisted and IN accQ|
ance with q plan arranged preNioI
BY wireless q southeastern, coiifse
taken. This was held untA nianlz
when the French gunb0at NtlfeI,
cued, the passengers and crew
met.
During the evening the ptFi<s
Of the submarine reapreafet{ 1f{f
few yards from the boats. hat
submarine itself Was not Eisfaie
passengers praised the r1rtetn
crew for their GOODNESS and d'eeipI|
There was no sign 81 paHie flifDu
out the long ordeal
According TO d statement f1'3d<
the Diet be the finapee minister
was GA hoard iAc XaKa44 tferi1 n