Show AMERICA DEMANDS S DISAVOWAL Of ANCONA ACT 1 ASHINGTON WASHINGTON Dec 9 A A vigorous vigor vigor- ous protest against the sinking of thu steamship Ancona by an Austrian submarine submarine has been sent to Austria b by Secretary of State Lansing Demands made on Austria are r tf That the government disavow the thet t act ct That reparation and indemnities be given Americans concerned That assurances be given that there will b be no repetition of or such warfare That f the c submarine commander guilty of or the outrage be punished by bythe bythe the government Austria's unsatisfactory explanation explanation tion which conflicted with the official official orti- orti cl cial l reports of the United States consuls consuls consuls con con- at Algiers Naples and Marseilles Marseilles Mar Mar- seilles and the report of Ambassador Page at Rome prompted the protest The Italian statement and the stories of the survivors were also widely at variance with Austria's version of or the facts I The United States takes the unqualified unqualified un- un un un- qualified position that it has been established that the Ancona was at attacked attacked at- at attacked tacked without warning It is also held as an established fact that the ship was fired upon while lifeboats were were being filled with passengers These conclusions are reached by this government despite the sweeping sweeping sweeping sweep sweep- ing denial in Austria's first statement of the allegations of ot the American survivors and the Italian government government government govern govern- ment which were denounced as mendacious inventions A s second scored cond dispatch from Austria was to the ef effect effect effect ef- ef that a a. report could not be made until the statement of ot the submarine commander was obtained One of the latest communications to the state department was from Consul Dean Mason at Algiers who stated unqualifiedly that passengers were ere still aboard the Ancona when it sank sink WASHINGTON Dec 9 The The heirs of Dr E. E F. F Wood of Janesville Wis one of t the Americans lost in the Arabic disaster will ask Germany to indemnify them for at least Dr Wood was returning from volunteer volunteer volunteer vol- vol duty in the hospitals of ot France and England when he lost his life |