The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . hingtonwhere it was regarded as foreshadowing a new controversybetween the United States and Austria similar to thecritical dispute with Germany that followed the torpedoing 321 IN THE GEEMAX COLONIES AND ON THE SEA of the Lvfiitania. Before making any comment, however,ofiBeials awaited information on two points—whether thevessel was torpedoed without warning, and whether anyAmericans were among the victims. A difiBcult problem eon-fronted the United St
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . hingtonwhere it was regarded as foreshadowing a new controversybetween the United States and Austria similar to thecritical dispute with Germany that followed the torpedoing 321 IN THE GEEMAX COLONIES AND ON THE SEA of the Lvfiitania. Before making any comment, however,ofiBeials awaited information on two points—whether thevessel was torpedoed without warning, and whether anyAmericans were among the victims. A difiBcult problem eon-fronted the United States Government in the Ancona ease,because of lack of definite information, and more particularlybecause the respective official statements from the Austrianand Italian Governments contradicted each other. Partiallists given out by the Italian steamship-line contained thenames of nine Americans among some 200 missing. TheState Department had only scattered reports, which, accord-ing to the New York Suns Washington correspondent, didnot establish definitely how many Americans were onboard or how manv of them were lost, and contained no. © INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE. THE ITALIAN SHIP -AXCOXA The Ancona was sunk by a Teutonic submarine, and was one of several ships, the loss of which occasioned correspondence between this country and Germany information whatever on the vital question as to whetherthe Ancona was warned or whether flight was the Austrian account, which affirmed the warning,nor the Italian one, which denied it, could be taken as validevidence by our Department of State. The Governmentconducted an inquiry of its own through its diplomatic andconsular agents. The general press reports indicated a com-bination of stubborn recklessness on the part of the Anconascaptain, poor training and poor judgment among the vesselscrew, possibly with carelessness aboard the submarine, which 322 SUBMARINES AND WAR-ZONE DECREES was said to have tried to frighten th
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