The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-01-07
VERNMENT IS
READY To ACT
PENFIELD YESTERDAY PRE-
SENTED THE REQUEST FOR
ALL INFORMATION IN CON-
NEcTlON WITH THE CASE.
SENATE MAY SOON ACT
Consul Carrots Reports That
There Is No Further Proof
That the Steamer Was Sunk
by a Submarine.
SENATE MAY SOON ACT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Ambns.
sador Penficld cabled TODAY he had
presented informally to the Vienna
foreign office the American govern
ments request for any information
on the destruction of the British liner
Persia, and at the time OF filing his
dispatch had received no reply.
American Consul Garrels at Alex.
andria reported that the affidavits he
mas gathered from the Persia sur
vivors give no more proofs that
/ submarine torpedocd the liner or re-.
gardng its nationality than were con
tanned in his first dispatches.
.-n.bassador peniiCld was i'm
structed to ask the Austrian govern.
ment informally for any information
| 1t might have on the Persia which
wonld develop the facts in the case
and help the American government
decide how tho liner,~was DESTROYED.
Consul Carries was instructed to get
affidaVits for the same purpose.
so far the only actual statement
tending to prove that the ship was
GERS of the ship. He said he saw
what he thought was the wake of
torpedo. No submarine was seen at
lany time.
Further dispatches from Ambassa.
dor Penfield are expected at the state
department probably late today. and
at any event tomorrow. Meanwhile
other consular agents along the Medi-
teFrahean coast are, like Consul Gar.
rels, seeking further information.
The absence of further definite adj
vices is holding the situation, so far
as any action by the United States Is
concerned, at a standstiil
The general international situation
including the crisis In the relations
between the United States and tho
Central powers over submarine war.
fare, will be considered at meeting
tomorrow Of the senate foreign rela-
tions committee The meeting has
been called by Chairman Stone. The
committee had before il today a mass
lof data bearing upon Great Briiains
attitude toward neutral shipping and
negotiations with Germany over sub.
marine warfare. The information
was sent to a senate resolution. All
available data on the destruction Of.
the British steamer Persia also was
said to be before the committee
President Wilson and Secretary
Lansing still were without definite
information upon which to base Off
cal action on the Persia incident.
Senators Simmons and Overman
Iasked President Wilson today if any
further information about the death
of Consul McNeely had been received.
The President told them that no new
facts had come to the government
within the last two days, but that
every effor' was being made to obtain
additional information
The Rev. Homer r. Salisbury, OF
this city the Seventh Day Adventist
Missionary superintendent for india.
who sailed on the liner Persia from
Marscilles, is given up for lost in
report which the Pennsulr and
Oriental line has transmitted to the
American embassy in London The
report was transmitted today TO the
state department
DR. Salisbury was born in Battle
Creek, Mich, in 1870.
Chairman Stone Of the foreign rele-
tiOns committee. discussed the situa.
tion with the president today and
talked Of other questions expected to
come up at meeting of a committee
today. particularly Senator Falls res
o!ution Of the Caranza government
and information on the Mexican ques-
ton.
The president told Senator Stone no
additional information Of Importance
had been received on the Persia Incl
dent and expressed the hope that un-
It'll the government had formulated its
policy there be as little discussion as
possible in the senate.