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Show ANCONA CAPTAIN I MAKES REPORT I Positively Charges Austrian Submarine Gave No Warning VM or Afforded Chance to vB Escape. 11 LINER STOPPED SHORT IH All Guns Turned on Liner and 1 Many Killed on Deck and in Boats. 11 Naples, Nov. 11, via Paris, Nov. 12, IH 12:45 a. m. (Delayed in transmission.) lH The owners of the Italian liner An H cona, sunk in the Mediterranean by IH a submarine, havo received the report ll of the Ancona's captain In which ho lH makes the positive charge that the submarine gave no warning to tho 7H liner or afforded those on hoard of H her a chance to escape. IH The first shot, the captain's report J declares, was fired when tho subma- fH rlne was three miles distant. Tho 1 captain immediately stopped, the ship, lH he says, but this did not appear to fl satisfy the commander of tho subma- 11 line which continued to shell the liner. 1 Tho captain without delay ordered 1 everybody to take to the boats, upon l which ho declares, the submarine l turned all her guns, killing and S wounding many persons both In the boats and on the deck of the steam- q er. Some of tho passengers who were n thrown into tho water and sought to 'J save themselves by clutching the sldo il of the submarine, were pushd away (11 with jeers and Insults, ho asserts. H Berlin Denies Lack of Warning. H Berlin, Nov. 12, by wireless to Say- H ville. "Discussing the case of tho H Italian steamship Ancona, which was H sunk, in the Mediterranean by a tor- H pedo, Berlin newspapers," says tho H Overseas News Agency, "point out i that according to the already publish- ed reliable information the vessel af- l ter receiving a warning from the sub- 1 marine tried to escape and that the M submarine therefore was fully justi- 1 fled in using force." 11 The Overseas News Agency contln- mM ues: 11 "The newspapers further assert 1 that" all the news from foreign sour- I ces agree that the submarine Hew th HH Austro-TIungarian flag." 11 oo 11 |