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Show j-iiiLuieu as oecongi uiass JMatti I S. DEMANDS 10 DE DENIED Forthcoming Reply Regarding Ancona Case Expected to Bring About Early Break With Austria. LONG DISCUSSION HELD Teutonic Diplomatic Circles Prepared for Rupture Between Be-tween Two Nations Over Submarine Methods. Washington. Dec. 2S Austria, according ac-cording to unofficial information received re-ceived in authoritative quarters here today, will not meet the demands of the United States In her forthcoming reply to tho Ancona note and Teutonic diplomatic circles aro represented as being prepared for a severance of diplomatic dip-lomatic relations. Although the state department so far has received from Ambassador Penffold at Vienna no forecast of the rrply, it was understood that unless some excellent reason for continuing diplomatic correspondence on the subject sub-ject was presented no course seems to remain but to break off relations. State department officials are expecting ex-pecting Information about the reply wh'lch might have been secured by Ambassador Penfleld during Informal conferences with Baron von Burlan, Austro-Hungarlan minister for foreign affairs. Advices received recently through Baron Erich Zweldinek. tne Austrian charge here, were to the effect that Austria would be "guided by concern" for the good relations existing between be-tween the two countries. The position of the state department depart-ment is that there can be no discussion discus-sion over the official admissions of the Austrian admiralty which formed the basis of the correspondence, un-, less Austria denies the accuracy of that statement. Paris, Dec. 28, 5:10 a. m. Unconfirmed Uncon-firmed advices from Vienna, as published pub-lished by the Petit Journal, say the impression prevails in Austro-Hun-garian governmental circles that the forthcoming reply to the second American Amer-ican note regarding the Ancona incident inci-dent wilU bring about a diplomatic riipture between Ihe two nations? The Petit Journal's dispatch, forwarded for-warded from Geneva, sayst "According to advices from Vienna, the Austro-Ilungarian answer to the American note was tho subject of a long discussion Sunday night between Premier Tizsa of Hungary and the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, Baron von Burlan. The foreign minister min-ister also conferred with Dr. S. T. Dumba, former Austro-Hungarian ambassador am-bassador at Washington. "Although no definite decision has yet been reached, the Impression in government circles Is that the answer will bring about a diplomatic rupture rup-ture " |
