Connecticut western news., 1915-12-23
SECOND NOTE SENT
 BY J. s. TO VIENNA
RGit9rafaS Demands Mads In
 the AnCOna Sinking Case.

With the full text of the second note 10 Austria regarding the Anconu dis aster completed and ratified by Presi- dent Wilson and MT. Lansing. Secre- | tary of state just before the president left on his wedding journey, the com i pleted document was forwarded to Mir. ! Penfeld. United States ambassador to | Vienna.
 It is authoritatively asserted that the J note is sharp and even more firm in its 1 demands than the first communication and thoroughly emphasizes the fact ! that it is not the intention of the Unit ed States government to back down in its demands.
 That the situation is exceedingly grave is acknowledged by government officials. and the possibility of an open break between Austria and this coun- try looms on the diplomatic horizon. The reply of Vienna to the first note said in part:
 ! As is not difficult to perceive, the pres l entation of the facts in the case in the | note leaves room for many doubts. and | even if this presentation were correct in | all points and the most rigorous legal con | ception were applied to the judgment of the case it does not in any way sufficiently warrant attaching blame to the command 1 ing officer of the war vessel or to the inn perial and royal government.
 The government of the United States has also failed to designate the persons upon whose testimony it relies and to whom it apparently believes it may attribute higher degree of credbility than 10 the commander of the imperial royal fleet,
 r. F1 Ya1a tsatu f1Nn ton why that government failed to give iuridicial reasons to the special cirturn- stances of the discriminating events upon which 1t itself lays stress and why in lieu l thereof it referred to an exchange of cor respondence which it has conducted with another government in other cases.
 The imperial and royal government is the less able to follow the Washington cabinet on this unusual path sincesit by no means possesses authentic knowledge or all Of the pertinent correspondence Of the government of the United States, nor is it Of the opinion that such Knowledge might be sufficient for it in the present case.
 The imperial and royal government may therefore leave it to the Washington cabi. net to formulate the particular points of law against which the commanding officer of the submarine is alleged to have of tended on the occasion of the sinking of the Ancona.
 The government of the United States has also seen fit to refer to the attitude which the Berlin cabinet assumed in the above mentioned correspondence. The imperial and royal government finds in the much esteemed note no indication whatever Of the intent with which this reference was made. Should. however, the government of the United States thereby have intended to express an opinion to the effect that a prejudice of whatever nature existed for the imperial and royal government with tn ha il fIap f4T the affair in question this government must in order to preclude possible misun- derstandings declare that as a matter nf course it reserves to itself full freedom of maintaining it's own legal views in the dis cussion of the case of the Ancona.
 RIJRIAN