Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-11
Austrian Underwater Craft
Succeeds in Sinking
Passenger Vessel
OUTWARD BOUND AND
AMERICANS ON BOARD
Officials at Washington
Anxious to Get Definite
Details Of Matter


Details Of Matter
Washington, D. c., Nov. TO-
Two itaIian-Americans sailed
from Naples on the steamer An
cana, according to a dispatch to
the state department today from
Consul White. One Of them was
Mrs, Francesca Maseolo lamura.
Consul White cabled It was verb
ally reported In Naples that 27o
persons had been saved.
Consul Whites dispatch said
the other lost American citizen
was ar infant.
London, Nov. 1o.-News OF the
sinking Of the Aneona was NOT
made public In London until short
" before noon, when the censor
released the first dispatch from
New York on the subject. This
dispatch referred to the fact that
/, sensation had been caused by
the torpedoing Of the Ancona, oue
rs nothing previously had been
heard Of the disaster, the mes
.aoe was ineomprehensib'e. Later
however, flood Of messages from
Rome was released.
Rome, Nov. 10. - The assertion
ls made by survivors OF the An
coma, according to reports which
reached Rome today, that the SUD
marine which sank the steamship
was German, although flying the
Austrian colors. This has not been
confirmed officially.
London, Nov. 10.-A dispatch 20
L;ovds from Bizerta says that 500
per.ons on the Ancona we're
drowned.
Most Of the lost, the message
says, were women and children
emlorants. One hundred and
thirty survivors have thus far
reached Bizerta.
London, Nov. 1o.-A dispatch
from the Stefani News agency OF
Rome says that one hundred shells
were fired into the Ancona before
she was torpedoed.
London, Nov. 10.-A dispatch to
Lloyds from Bizerta states that
some Americans are said there to
have been on board the Ancona.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 10. :
Definite information concerning tn
linking of the Italian liner Ancona b,
submarine flying the Austrian f1a|
vas anxiously awaited by officials Q
he United States government.
Dispatches containing little informa
ion other than that the ship had beel
Junk and that 270 and of the 482 pei
ons on board had been saved, receiv
d here early today, created sensa
ion in official circles.
Should 1t develop that American
hoard lost their lives and that tn
Iteamer was torpedoed without warn
ng, the American government prob
.bly would demand of the Austrian
disavowal of the act req
ration and assurances that ther
you'd be no repetition of the incident
If administration officials decide tha
he matter is one calling for diplomati
exchanges, the first step probabl;
you'd be to secure, through Ambassa
Ior Penfield at Vienna and Ambas
ador Page at Rome, official informa
ion from the Austrian and the Italian
Secretary Lansing indicated tn
United States would await for a reas
,nable time, an official report on tn
sinking of the Ancona but that If OF
.ial word is not received within
time the department will
nquire into the affair through the en-
,assy at Rome.
censors Hold Up News.
New York, Nov. 10. No word cor
,erning the sinking of the Ancona ha
,een received early today by Hartfield
,olari & Co., local agents for tn
Italian line, and 1t was thought in tn
steamship circles that the rigid Italial
censorship had caused numerous pr
,ate and press dispatches to be he'll
Jack. A message from Rome toda
stated that there were 482 passenger
IN the Ancona, instead of 422, as givel
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