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Show Commnipaw Is Again Attacked !!y Submarine Reports Indlcat; That Some of the Ship's Crew Were Wounded b Shellfire Washington, Dec. 111. Detailed in formation will bo awaited by tho state department before any nctlon is tnlton regarding tho recent attacks at-tacks upon American tank steamers In the Medltciraucan by bubmarlnes (lying tho Austrian Hag. Dispatches ro'ntlng to tho Standard Stand-ard Oil tanlfcr Communlpaw havo been particularly puzzling. A consular consu-lar cablegram from .Malta tonight announced an-nounced that sho had arrived today at Alexandria, Egypt and that casualties casual-ties would bo reported by Alexandr.a. A previous dispatch had tob.1 of tho arrival of tho Communlpaw at Alexandria December f with a report that sho had been stopped by n sub-marlno sub-marlno and allowed to proceed on Uecoraber 3 and of her sal'thg Do comber 7. Tonight's r?port Is pre sumed to mean that tho ship had returned re-turned to Alexandria ufter encountering encoun-tering another submnrino which nt-tackod nt-tackod her and killed or wounded somo of hor crow. Austria Hungary's reply to the Amorlcan note on tho sinking of tho Italian stenmor Ancona is looked for by stato department oillclals by tho oud of this week. This expectation was expressed today after Unron Erich Er-ich Zwiodlnck, charge of tho Austro Hungarian embassy had cohforred with Secretary I-nnstug, regarding tho nolo and attempted, It was understood un-derstood to gain Informally for tho Information of IiIb government an understanding un-derstanding of what would satisfy tho United States. Tho charge, It wns said, did not ludicnto what tho action of Austria Hungary might be, explaining that ho had not heard from tho foreign olllce upon tho subject. Much attention has been attracted In official and diplomatic circles by that portion of tho uoto which rcfor red to tho ncqulcsenco of Germany. In tho attitude of tho United States toward uso of submarines In attack lug ossols of commerce. This rofcr-nico rofcr-nico sorved to nccelornto speculation ns to whnt effect a satisfactory or an unsntlsfnctory answer to tho note would havo upon tho negotiations bo-tween bo-tween tho United Stntes nnd Germany Ger-many regarding tho Amorlcan lives lost on tho Lusltanla. Officials hero wero interested in press dispatches from Vienna which reported that tho Austro Hungarian govornmont had been unublo to communicate com-municate with tho commnndor ot tho submarine which Bank tho Ancona nnd suggesting that tho undersea vos-sol vos-sol might havo been dostroyed. Should tho commnndor actually 1j missing tho fnct, It Is bollovod, would play nn important part In tho considerations consid-erations by Austria Hungary of a ro nly to tho American uoto. |