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Cancels Cabinet Meeting
but COnferS with Sen.
atOr Stone.
NATIONS WHICH OUTRAGE
u. S. MUST BE DEALT WITHs
Presidents Visitor Declares on
Departure-Senate May At
tack Foreign Policy.
ANxIOUSLY AWAIT WORD
FROM VIENNA QUARTERS
Attempt to Establish Subna-
rine's Acknowledgements
Regrets Loss of Lives.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.-Ohicial ans
nouncement that the government viii
act in the newest phase of the sub
marine crisis brought on by the sink
ing of the Persia was made today at
the White House.
Secretary Tumulty issued this state-
ment for the president:
THE president and the secretary
Of state are taking every means pos
sible to obtain the full facts in this
grave matter and win act just as soon
as the information is Obtained
In the absence of detailed and
specific information on which to base
the next STEP President Wilson cam
celed the cabinet meeting which was
to have been held today. but conferred
with Chairman Stone and some mem-
bers of the Senate foreign relations
committee.
Hear of Senate Opposition.
Chairman Stone told the presidenf
there were limitations that some se1-
ators were preparing to make
speeches on the sinking of ships with
loss OF American life The president
Is understood to have simply replied
that the administration was doing all
il could to protect American rights.
Senator Stone told the president that
when the foreign relations coinmittce
met tomorrow he wanted TO be prepared
TO meet any situation that might arise.
Tho senator said after his talk with
the president that until the facts regard-
Ing the Persia were obtained nothing
copld be done. z,'--7 -
49,
RACED the United States should be deait
with severely.
The president instructed Secretary
Lansing to bring Immediately to the
White House any new information
which came to hand, and then busted
himself reading the official dispatches
SO far received and getting in toucl3
generally with the situation.
The administration Is depending
largely on the inquiries which AM
bassador Penfeld has been instructed
to make al Vienna, and that which
consuls are gathering elsewhere to
establish the nationality of the sub
marine which is said TO have sunk
the Persia, and to develop the facts
in the case generally.
McNeely Not on the List
Consul General Skinner at London
today advised the state department
that the telegrap phic list of survivors
of the torpedoed liner Persia received
there from Alexandria did not In
clude the name of Robert N. MS-x.
Neely, American consul at Alden. but
does include Charles Grant, of Bos-
ton.
Eleven survivors, including Lord
Montagu, have been landed ut Malfst.
according to advices to the state de-
partment from American Consul Keb-
llnger
His dispatch said seven Indians OF
the Persia's crew had been found
'clinging to a damaged open boat BY
the steamship Hingchow. All the
men said the. Persia had been tor
pedoed without warning.
White House officials SAID botn the
Senate and the House would be kept
informed OF all important develop
ments in the foreign situation, prob
ably through conferences between the
president and Senate and House lead
ers, although if any drastic action Ia
taken it is possible that the presi-
dent may send q message TO Com
gress.
Chairman Flood Caller.
Later Chairman Flood, of the Houses
foreign affairs committee, called at
the White House and conferred with
President Wilson on the situation.
There was no indication today OF
what the prospects were for the
United States formally acquainting
Bulgaria and Turkey of its position
on the question of submarine warfare,
1t had been proposed that should be
done, so that none of the central
power belligerents could plead lack OF
official information as Austria did az
first in the Aneona case. The course
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