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Show AUSTRIANS HAD MISREPRESENTED Washington, March 1. Members of the crew of the American tanker Pe-trolite Pe-trolite have made affidavits to refute the contentions of the Austrian government gov-ernment in connection with the attack on the ship by an Austrian submarine subma-rine in the Mediterranean some time ago. The affidavits support the original orig-inal information on which the state department made representations to Vienna. Recently the Austrian government asked for more facts and gave its version ver-sion of the incident which was that the submarine commander mistook the American ship for a hostile merchantman merchant-man about to attack and that the master mas-ter of the Petrolite voluntarily gave him provisions. Tho version of the Petrolite's crew is that the ship was fired upon without with-out warning, injuring one man of the engine room crew and that an American Am-erican of her crew 1vas held as hostage hos-tage aboard the submersible while provisions were taken from the steamer's stores. oo |