Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
FULLY SATISFIED
4 BY VIENNA REPLY
Austria's Assurances for Future Re-
garded as More Acceptable
Than GeImany's.
NOTE IS ON WAY TO WILSON

WASHINGTON, Jan. l. - Aus
fria's reply to the Ancona note not
bnly meets the cardinal points of
The American demands, but gives as
surances for the future which are
considered more satisfactory in their
extent than those which we're given
by Germany.
Tho full American official view will
pot be known until after President VIII
Bon has studied the Austrian reply, which
was received today from Ambassador
Penfield and was Immediately dispatched
70 Hot Springs by White House mes
benEeE.
1t may be stated authoritatively. never
eheless, that danger OF a rupture OF diplo-
matic relations has passed, and the con-
Froversy now enters the same stage as
The Lusitania negotiations with Germany,
On even q more favorable basis.
q Assurance is Satisfactory.
Austria in the Ancona case has sub
bcribed to the principle that no ships will
be sunk unless they offer resistance or
flee without the persons aboard being
brought to safety. This is considered an
assurance that is far reaching and salts
factory.
Germany only promised not to attack
pliners" until the persons aboard had
been placed in boats. The extent Of the
designation liners never has been cleared
up and the American government does
not concede that placing persons in boats
necessarily assures their safety.
Points which Austria leaves for further
diplomatic correspondence are not con-
kidered Of nature to bring on a new
crisis Chief among them are questions
of fact which affect Austria's RESPONSE
bility for what happened before the SUBJ
marine commander torpedoed the Ancona,
and their Importance is minimized by the
promise to pay indemnity for Americans
lost regardless Of the absence of proof
as TO just how they met. their death.
Statement Accepted.
The mere statement that the submarine
commander has been punished for not
making allowance for the panic on the
ship undoubtedly will be accepted without
question and without further inquiry as
20 its nature.
One of the features OF the case which
has attracted wide attention in official
and diplomatic quarters is the apparent
similarity of the proceedings in the An
coma case with those i'm the Lusitania
controversy. In both cases observers
noted that the foreign office view finally
prevailed over those of the admiralty
which in each case was hostile to the
contentious OF the United States.
The sinking OF the Japanese liner
Yasaka Maru and the French liner Vile
de La Clotat after the second American
mote was received in Vienna are accounted
for hero on the theory that the Austrian
admiralty, holding out for Its submarine
policy, had not then issued new instruc-
tons to the submarine commanders.
\, Bernstorff Sees Lansing.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German SIM
bassador, conferred with Secretary Lam
sing today on the Lusitania case and It
was said that while no communications
were passed. views were exchanged and
# was indicated that the promised settle
nent is not far off. The ambassador let
1t be known that he considered the Aus
trian reply a complete compliance with
the demands of the United States.
The next step in the negotiations in the
case will be for the American govern
ment TO furnish information at its COM
mand of the Americans who were lost
as one of the preliminaries to fixing the
Indemnity. The other diplomatic ques-
tions which are raised are regarded
broadly as academic.