| Show mm AUSTRIA mm ear TO MA KE APOLOGY UNITED STATES ASKS reparation FOR ATTACK ON AMERI CAN STEAMER will demand an apology for the at tack punishment of om submarine commander and reparation for the damage done Washington the united sta states es ia Is preparing to make formal demands dem a ands upon austria hungary as a re result 8 u it of the attack by an austrian submarine upon the american tank steamer pe A note on the subject will bo be dispatched within a few daab it was authoritatively stated saturday night that the united states would stand by its oil original ginal contention and ask an apology for the attack punishment of the submarine commander and reparation for the damage done to the heijel and injuries inflicted on a member of the crew who was hit bit by a piece of shell in reply to the first american corn com muni cation on the subject austria in formed the state department that its version of the affair was that the submarine commander thought the petro life lite an benl enl eamy my ship disguised with the american flag that he fired on the vessel because he believed it was about to ram his 1113 ship and that the commander of the voluntary vol lly ily provisions when asked to do so the state department since has se curd cured information from the captain and crew of the tile directly con trad letory to the tile austrian version they have declared in affidavits that the tile was stopped in tho the med nied iter by an austrian submarine which fired a number of shells at her that the submarine commander asked for food which the commander of tie refused to rive give him and that the tle commander of the tile submarine then held one of the members of the tank ere ers ere crew as a hostage while his men went aboard the tile ship and took such stores as they deairl de desir sirl 11 |
