AMERICA'S NOTE TO AUSTRIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2647, 18 December 1915, Page 5

AMERICA'S NOTE TO AUSTRIA

THE ANCONA CRIME A, QUIBBLING REPLY By Telcnranh—'Press Association—Copyricht Amsterdam, December 16. Austria lias replied co tlio United States Note regarding the torpedoing of the steamer Ancona in the Mediterranean on November 10. The reply says that, in view of the sharpness of America's censure, and the firmness of her demands, it might have been expected that America would clearly give the circumstances on which she relies, and the names of the porsons to whom sho attributes a higher degree of trustworthiness than that of the commander of the Imperial andßoyal Navy. , "Moreover, America's representation of tho circumstances is open to doubt. Lt does not give the names, or details of tho Americans who were believed to be lost, but as America positively dcthat United States subjects camo to grief' in the above-mentioned incident, Austro-Hungary is prepared to exchange opinions. "Austria cannot_ understand why America does not give reasons for her demands, and in place of tliem _ mentions correspondence which she has had with another Government about another affair. • Austria has no knowledgo of such correspondence, and, in any case, the two affairs are different. America thinks it necessary to point out Germany's attitude in tho affair above mentioned, but Austria finds no support for this hint in the highlyesteemed Note, and if America contends that a precedent was established thereby, Austria declares that she must preserve her liberty to place her own legal interpretation upon it enuring the Ancona discussion. "The Government fully sympathises with the victims." 'A PASSIVE OBJECTOR.' '(Rec. December 17, 8.30 p.m.) London, December 16. Tho "Daily Telegraph's" Washington correspondent- states that not ono person in a hundred believes that a rupturo with Austria will occur on America's initiative. "Austro-Germany fully understands this." "UNSATISFACTORY, AND UNACCEPTABLE." (Rec. December 17, 10.15 p.m.) . London, December 17. - The "Daily Telegraph's" Washington correspondent states that the Austrian Note is regarded as being- "wholly Tinsatisfactory, disappointing, and unacceptable." OPINION IN VIENNA. ■ (Bee. December 18, 1.25 a.m.) j Amsterdam. December 17. Viennese opinion believes that America must recall her Ambassador in view of the Ancona reply. The Press disapproves of the so-called "insolence" of the reply.