Show ITALIAN STEAMER I SUNK BY AUSTRIANS s TEAMER ATTACKED IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA WHILE BOUND FOR NAPLES NAPLE I Two wo Hundred and Seventy Survivors I I Some of Them Wounded Have Bye Been n Landed at BIzerta Many Many Women and Children Aboard j Rome The The Italian liner Ancona has las been sunk by a large submarine flying the Austrian colors One hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred and fifty lives were lost She carried passengers and sixty in inthe inthe the he crew Two hundred and seventy survivors some some of them wounded have lave been landed at Bizerta Th The Ancona sailed from New York for or Naples on October 17 Sh had hadon hadon hadon on board 1245 Italian reservists and a general cargo She arrived at Naples on October 29 and was due to o sail from Naples for New York on Wednesday When the Ancona left New York on her last voyage on on October 17 she was in command of Captain Pietro Massardo All of her officers engine room force and members of the crew were Italians who shipped from Italy taly For several months before Italy's entrance in the war the Ancona was engaged in carrying home Italian reservists reservists re- re from this thi country and supplies supplies sup- sup plies lies for the Italian government William Hatfield general manager of f the Italian line characterized the sinking inking of the Ancona as an unnecessary unnecessary essary crime and absolute murder He le immediately cabled the Naples office of his firm asking for all Information information mation regarding the disaster Although he had no list of f her passengers pas pas- engers Mr Hatfield said the Ancona Ancona Anona An- An cona ona cona on her last voyage voyage to this country country coun- coun try ry had carried or or 4 ong them a number number of American American Amer- Amer ican can citizens citizen's in the first cabin and andin andin in n the steerage He be believed she slie carried a large number of women and children on her present voyage |