The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-12-29
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new NOTE MILDER
THAN FIRST ONE
American Demands In AnGOna
Case, However, Are Reiterated.
FAVORABLE REPLY EXPECTED
State Department Officials of the
Opinion That the Latest Message
Contains More Consideration For
the SensibiIities of Austria-RepIy
Expected Within Two Weeks-Text
of the American Note.

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the SensibiIities of Austria-RepIy
Expected Within Two Weeks-Text
of the American Note.
Washington, Dec.>23.-State depart
ment officials intimated that Austria
10 expected to reply within two weeks
to the, second note of the American
government on the sinking of the Ital-
ian liner Ancona. The text of the
latest note has been made public.
The new note to Austria serves no
tice that the United States VIII not
discuss the circumstances of the sink
ing of the Ancona or the legality of
the attack, and that it will not fur
nish Austria with bill of particulars.
All the demands contained in the first
note are reiterated. Yet the new
note, while conveying an impression
of fnality, is clothed in milder Ian
guage than the first one.
Although still insistent that the
Austrian government denounce the
sinking of the Ancona, punish the
submarine commander and make rep
GRAFTON for the American lives lost,
the communication as viewed here
lacks the brusqueness of the previous
one, and omits altogether the refer
ences to which the Austrian govern
ment took particular offense concern
ing the correspondence between the
United States and Germany on the
submarine issue. The latest note is
free from such expressions as bar
barous,' "abhorent," "wanton slaugh-
ter and Outrage" which were con-
tanned in the first.
In state department circles and
quarters close to the German and Aus
trian embassies the feeling is mani
fest that because of the milder Ian
guage employed, Austria may find a
means of replying which will pave the
way for an amicable settlement. AL
though it is questionable whether her
next note will be an outright compli-
ance with the demands of the United
States, 1t is still thought possible that
II she repldiates the. Austrian admir-
elty statement, upon which the United
States mainly relies in justification OF
this country's demands. the way
might be opened for a discussion o.
all the circumstance of the affair.
The full text of the note. which is
addressed to American Ambassador
Penfield, follows:
Second Note to Austria.
The government of the United States
has received the note of your eNcellency
relative to the sinking of the Ancona,
which was delivered at Vienna on Dec.
I5, 1915. and transmitted to Washington.
and has given the note immediate and
careful consideration.
On Nov. Is, 1915, Baron Zwiedinek, the
charge d'affaires of the imperial and
royal government at Washington, trans
rnitted to the department of state a re-
port OF the Austro-H Hungarian admiralty
with regard to the sinking Of the steam
ship Ancona, In which 1t was admitted
that the vessel was torpedoed after her
engines had been stopped and when pas
sengers were still on board
This admission alone Is, In the view
Of the government of the United States,
sufficient to fix upon the commander of
the submarine which fired the torpedo
the responsibility for having wilfully
violated the recognized law of nations
and entirely disregarded those humane
principles which every belligerent should
observe in the conduct of war at sea.
In view OF these admitted circumstances
the government of the United States
OF the sinking of the Ancona, the weight
and character of the additional testi-
mony corroborating the admiralty's re-
port and the number of Americans killed
or injured are In no way essential mat
tiers of discussion. The culpability N the
commander is in any case established.
and the uudisputed fact is that citizens
OF the United States were killed. injured.
or put in jeopardy by the lawless act.
The rules of international law and the
principles of humanity which We're thus
wilfully violated by the commander Of
the submarine have been so long and so
universally recognized and are so mani
fest 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 that the
imperial and royal government questions
or disputes them.
The government of the United States
thsrefore finds no other course open to
II but to hold the imperial and royal
government responsible for the act of
its naval commander and to- renew tho
defirite. but respectful demands made in
its communication of Dec. 6. 1915. IT
sincerely hopes that the foregoing state
ment of its position Will enable the I'M
perial and royal government to perceive
the justice of those demands and to COM
ply with them in the same spirit of
frankness and with the same concern for
the good relations now existing between
the United States and Austria Hungary
which prompted the government of the
United States to make them.