The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-11-11
AKC0Ni, ITALIAN
LINER, IS SUNK BY
AUSTRIAN PLuE5L
The State Department.
Concerned Ovsr
rorped9ing.
sAlLro OCT. II
From New York City, With
1.245 italian Reservists
Aboard.

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Washington, ID. C.-Definite infor.
nation concerning the sinking of the
Italian liner Ancona by an Austrian
submarine is anxiously awaited by
the United States officials. Should
it develop that Amaadcans aboard lost
their lives and that the steamer was
torpedocd without warning, the
American government probably will
demand of the Austrian government
disavowal of the act and reparation
and assurances that there will be no
repetition of the incident. Secretary
Lansing said today that unless Off
cial word regarding the incident is
received in reasonable time. the
department will inquire through the
embassy at Rome.
London, England.-A dispatch
from Rome. via Paris, says that the
Italian liner Ancona, sunk in the
Mediterranean by submarine, had
aboard S3 first cabin passengers, so
! in the second cabin and 339 in the
|steerage.
Prince Cassano Zunica was aboard
the Ancona.
Stefan's News agency, of Rome, re-
ceived a dispatch THAT 100 shells
were fired into the Ancona before she
was torpedoed.
Add to London lead under Ancona
Over 600 Human Souls Aboard.
Late reports from Rome show the
Ancona had 4S2 passengers aboard
and crew of 100. OF this total 642
persons 324 are so far accounted for.
Lloyd's received dispatch from
| BiZerta saying that 800 persons had
drowned
"Most of the fast. says the mes
sage, "were women and children emi-
grants. One hundred and thirty
survivors thus far have reached BIZ
Zerta."
A Malta dispatch says that forty
one members of the crew and four
passengers We're picked up at sea,
jand landed there.
Censc -'e'''-> Blocks News.
1t is be that the rigid Ital-
ian censors rs caused many pri-
vate messages and press dispatches
to be delayed, thus keeping the de-
tails of the disaster from the public.
Messages last hight and today were
conflicting regarding the number of
passengers aboard. those saved and
those lost.
The message from Malta stating
that few passengers and forty-one
of the crew had landed there, failed
to aid in fixing the approximate
sunk.
To1& 80 81,
east of Cape Bon, where two of the
Ancona's life boats were landed.
Thus, it is believed the persons
landed at Malta were taken there
probably by a British ship. The fact
that large number of survivors
were landed at Bizerta, east of Cape
Bon, indicates the Ancona was on
her regular course when sunk.
Carried Many Songbirds.
New York City-The Ancona, &C
|cording to local agents, was sched-
uled to sail from Naples yesterday.
The Austrian submarine it is thought
here, probably was lying in wait near
the entrance to the Malta channel,
which is a narrow strip of the Med
iiterranean between Sicily and the
coast of Africa. Austrian and German
submarines had been active in this
region of late.
The Ancona has not been used as
transport during the present war,
the agent said, nor has the vessel car
ried munitions. She was a favorite
steamer with opera singers and musi-
clans coming to this country. Titta
Ruffo, the baritone, was reported
aboard the steamer. but this was dis
credited by his brother in Chicago.
Owing to the fact that the Metro
politan opera season in New York
opens Monday and that large num-
ber of singers of other companies
already were in this country, the Off
cials did not think there were any
singers aboard.
4 Americans on Board.
/ Washington, D. C.-Two Italian
Americans sailed from Naples on the
steamer Ancona, according to a dis
patch to the state department today
from Consul White. One of them was
| Mrs. Francesca Mascolo Lambura.
Consul White cabled that it was ver-
hally reported in Naples that 27O
persons had been saved.
4 Two Boats Landed.
Cape Ban, Tunis--(via London)-
Two of the Anconas boats, with 50
members of the crew had landed near
here. Some of the men are injured.
800 Reported Drowned.
London, England Bier
ia dispatch says that 800 persons
aboard the Ancona were drowned.
/ Left New York Oct. IL.
ed from New York for Naples on Oc-
tober II. sne had on board 1,245
Italian reservists and a general cargo
She arrived at Naples on October 80
!. and was due to sail from Naples for
New York Tuesday. . Il
The Ancona was built at Belfast