New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-24
Vienna Cannot Evade
Issue. London Asserts
BY ARTHUR S. DRAPER.
Try Csbi, % he tribunal

London, Dec. 29.-"The Standard"
says editorially: "The second Ameri-
can note to Austria is brief and EN-
phatic. 1t is difficult to see how the
issue can further be evaded. Either
Austria must accept the American
point of view or face the consequences,
whatever they may be. The note is
strong, but IL certainly Is not a whit
too strong, for the United States gov
eminent has been treated by Austria
with a polite insolence that must be
almost more CALLING than the more
brusque tone Of Berlin.
THAT President Wilson is resolved
not 10 be played with by Vienna as
he was BY Berlin is due. not to the
deeper guilt of Austria Hungary, but
70 a conviction Of the Americans that
there Is but one way 70 deal with gov
ernments so deeply tainted with law
lessness and insincerity. There can be
but little question that American opin-
ion daily incines with more decision
10 the view that Germany Is nearing
the end of her tsther.
american military experts do not,
indeed, believe that Germany will be
crushed or vivisected. but do believe
that she will emerge from the war de
feated in ambition, drained OF gold
bankrupt in moral and material credit
and anamic from the loss Of her best
blood. That belief Is beginning TO
influence a wider circle daily. When
IL pernneates the whole commercial ana
financial community of the greatest
and richest neutral nation. the efect
on German and Allied credit will be
no unimportant element in the s'tua-
ton" -. mr.
"The Daily News" editorial says; ~
may still be possible Tor germany ~
Austria 10 public penance, but IL can
scarcely be done without great damage
10 the prestige Of the Central Powers.
Fro,n the point Of view Of civilization
nothing better could happen than tnat
America should be able quite dehmtely'
Vet without an open breach, 70 ENFORCE
unon them a public acknowledgment
Of their own violations OF law ana
humanity. h.
NO sensible man who knows what
HIS been and is the enormous worth
Of Americas services TO shaIIeTe9
Belgium and prisoners IN German ana
Austrian interument camps can desire
In and for itself an American rupture
with the NeNITAl VNtA''
ouly be desired if it is proved indlsc
putably that there is no other way OF
makine these powers respect the ordl,
nary laws of humanity and right: vi
this the Ancona case will be dehnlte
test"
'"rhe Manchester Guardian" says;
This was not the mood Of the AmeTl-
can disratches 20 Germany on the SINK
inc Of the Lusitania. but there are rea-
sons for the greater severity that IS
now shown. For Germany, since the
sinking Of The Lusitauia. has promised
not 10 sink passenger steamers without
warning and unless they are resisting
the right Of search. This promise
though made on behalf Of Germany
must also be held TO bind Austria, the
more so as there is some Suspicion that
the submarine which sank the Ancona
may be German. -.
THE strongest position Of the INT
ted States was that taken up on the
first notes in the sinking Of the Lusl-
tania, that submarine war on commerce
was necessarily inhumane and In viola
ton Of international law. II is PITY
the United States ever receded from
that position