New Britain herald., 1916-01-03
A DOUBLE-CROss?

6tics, to all intents and purposes bne and the same thing. Dis |3e argument belongs in the first |N to the art of diplomacy and
 e science of dialectics is put #h proper hands the pro and con Z8bjects can be- carried on ad in m. There can be no end to a ENnatic controversy. For witness
 s we need go no further than N of our recent arrangements 5 foreign powers. Realizing all then no one would decry the
 y gained by President Wilson lis able assistant in the cabinet, Hary of State Lansing, over the ial and royal government of Hungary. No one. would say
 as q task done not well. The 8bf Count Burien in reply to the | Ancona note from this country F. cen branded as more than sat- < bry. It has the added attraction Ing even. generous in it's offers
 aration. Our government made EH demands: sDisavowal of the act, pment Of the submarine com er, and indemnity for American lost. The former two were met In wholehearted manner, the
 was acquiesced in by terms that ore than responsive. to witt
 rhe imperial and royal gov ENnent, in the face of this state E hffairs, does not hesitate to v the corresponding conclu-
 Is respecting the indemnifica- of American citizens affect by the sinking of the prize. E3 in this regard it makes the wing statement:
 The investigation into the Hing of the Ancona could nat ly furnish no essential point
 aow in how far a right to an mnity is to be granted Amer citizens. The imperial and government cannot, indeed, according to the view of the Ellington cabinet, be held e for damages which result From: the undoubtedly justified [Xbardment of the fleeing ship. EMnou1d just as little have to Yer for the damages which to pass before the torpedo EXbf the ship through the faulty ring of lifeboats or the cap- g of lowered boats.
 [&The imperial and royal gov Hlent must assume that the } Ellington government is in E ion and disposed to give it
 Austro- Hungarian govern ID the required, and certain
 lot unimportant, information lis respect. If, however, be- e of possible lack of mater 8broofs, the particular cir I4ees under which American Ems suffered damage should have become known to the E&n government, the royal gov Nhent, in consideration for KMhumanely deeply regrettable ent and by desire to pro- EWl once again it's friendly feel Rfoward the federal govern VI would be gladly willing to
 gard this gap in the evil
 e and to extend indemnities to those damaged whose e cannot be established that there hardly could be
 of Austria wishing to main #e friendly relations which have
 between the two governments. who would say otherwise be branded as 8 wild eyed E ready to see the nation d into war But when that rived in Washington the Per hssacre had not taken place.
 I1e submarine issue Is back } 1t started, with the sinking of sitania almost nine months Z
 @ case is one of the sravest th3 5 States has had to deal with; mean the beginning of the
 Robert N McNeely, an officer United States government, on " to his consular post at Alden
 It as yet been accounted for
 list of survivors. It is prac-
 assured that he is dead. His cannot go unnoticed if tho of the nation is to be main And yet it is going to take inne to fasten the blame for ] Rest afrocity. And when the , is finally fixed there must be to a spirit of steel and iron,
 rit of '76.
 difficult to believe that Austro- -y is implicated in the Persia
 Not after her compliance in
 sea case The Vienna states
 a, Fen heaped with the high 5 Efulation@ for having fol- the course they did. Shortly be-
 at note the largest part of the rv. here was up in arms against