The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1915, Page 1

Sitti WILSON WRITING SHARP REPLY TO AUSTRIA’S Che FANAL Books Open to All. PRICE ONE CENT. Ce. (The New Copyrieht, 1916, by The Press Pub! NEW YO! _Yorky World), YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 14 PA GES WEATHER—Cloudy and NOT ider to-night. Sunday fain, » FANSL —= ss PRICE ONE CENT. POLICEMAN HERE IS ACCUSED AS SPY; GERMAN AGENTS SAY THEY HIRED HIM ~ TEXT OF THE AUSTRIAN NOTE DENIES RESPONSIBILITY FOR SINKING OF LINER ANCONA Vienna Declares That Even if Facts) Are as Stated by the United States U-Boat Commander Cannot Be Blamed. WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—The official text of Austria’s reply to the American note on the Ancona, made public to-day, reveals that the Mienna Government denies that the views presented by the United States, even if correct, warrant the blame for the disaster being placed upon the tommarider of the submarine. The reply denies also that blame can be placed upon the Austro- Hungarian Government even if “a most rigorous legal construction were ‘ applied to the judgment of the case.” The note also states that the Austro-Hungarian Government is unable to determine what the United States intended to indicate when it mentioned the attitude which Germany had assumed toward submarine warfare, It adds that if the United States intended “to express an opinion to the effect that @ prejudice of whatever nature existed” with respect to “Juridical con-| sideration” of the affair the Vienna Government declares that it reserves to itself “full freedom of maintaining its own legal view,” Except for slight variation jn translation the remainder of the official text virtually is identical with the unofficial version cabled trom London. It was agreed in official quarters that the oficial text did not minimize a realization of the gravity of the situation which was impressed on officials by the unofficial cables, but it also was apparent that the door to further negotiations was not closed, While the State Department was miking the note public, President ‘Wileon was at work in his study on the outline of a reply which will go forward sometime next week. It is asserted in official circles that the new note will be sharper than the first, and plainly indicate that the Austrian contentions are unsatisfac- tory. The State Department also made pudlic an official text of the Austrian Admiralty’s statement, which admitted that the submarine fired on the Ancona after the ship had come to a stop and while passengers stl! were aboard. It was upon this official admission of the Austrian Admiralty ftself that a principal portion of the American note was based, Official Text of the Austrian Note Rejecting Demands of U. S. WASHINGTON, Dee. 18.—Following is the text of the Austrian note on tthe Ancona onse, made public to-day: ‘WILSON BUSY WITH STATE AFFAIRS ON Fiancee, Then Returns and Resumes Business. fO WED AMID ORCHIDS. Bridal Party Will Stand Beneath Floral Bower To-Night— Police Guard Galt Home. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18,—The wed- ding of President Wilson and Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt in a general w: overshadowed in interest to-day fairs of state, All arrangements we: complete for the ceremony which ls to be solemnized at Mra. Galt’s home to-night, presumably Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of St. Margaret's “Protestant Episcopal Church, officiating. The members of the two families who are to be the wedding guests were here and deoor- atorsand florists had put the finishing touches on the rooms to be used for the wedding The President and his bride, it was stated to-day, will be married beneath a bower of orchids. Arrangements guarding the house during the ceremony Included a diversion of all traffic from the street and a heavy guard of police- men and Secret Service agents about the premises, Tho early part of the day was marred by a drenching downpour, ‘The rain began during the night and Continued until noon, when the skies cleared and the sun came out, In the midst of the storm the Presi- dent left the White House and mo- tored to the home of hia flances. Aft- er a brief visit he went to his bank where he spent half an hour, looking through his safe deposit box and going over some accounte, The momentous event of his wedding failed to move tho Presi- dent from his customary routine of work. He was about the Executive Office early clearing up the unfin- for “In reply to the much esteemed note No. 4,167 which His Excellency Mr. Frederic Courtland Penfield, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenti- potentiary of the United States of America, directed to him in the name of the American Government under date of the 9th inet,, in the matter of the sinking of the Italian steamer Ancona, the undersigned, preliminary to a thorough meritorious treatment of the demand, has the honor to observe that the sharpness with which the Government of the United States con- sliders it necessary to blame the commanding officer of the submarine con- cerned in the affair, and the firmness in which the demands addressed to the Imperial and Royal Government appear to be expressed, might well have warranted the expectation that the Government of the United States should precisely specify the actual circumstances of the affair upon which it bases its case, ‘As is not difficult to perceive, the presentation of the facts in the case in the aforesaid note leaves room for many doubts, and even if this presené “Yatton were correct in all points and the most rigorous legal conception | ‘were applied to the judgment of the case, it does not in any way sufficiently | ‘warrant attaching blame to the commanding officer of the war vessel or to the Imperial and Royal Government. “The Government of the United States has also failed to designate the persons upon whose testimony it relies and to whom it apparently valleres it may attribute a higher degree of credibility than to the commander of the Imperial and Royal feet. “The note also fails to give any information whatsoever as to the num- ber, names and more precise fate of the American citizens who were on board of the said steamer at the critical moment “However, in view of the fact that the Washington Cabinet has now made a positive statement to the effect that eltizens of the United States of America came to grief in the accident In question, the Imperial and Royal Government is in principle ready to enter into an exchange of ylews tn the affair with the Government of the United States. It must, however, in the first place, raise the question why that Government tatled to give jurk dical reasons for the demands set forth in tts note with reference to the epecial ciroumstances of the incriminating events upon which it itself lays! stress, and why in lieu thoreof it referred to an exch of ¢ vondene: which ©) has conducted with another Government {n other cases. The Im perial and Roya) Government is the able to follow the Washington ee Woatinued on Second Page = ished ends of Government business preparatory td leaving it for two weeks, During the forenoon he con ferred with Secretary of State Lans- ing and took up work on the second Ancona note to Austria, At noon he stood as godfather for his granddaughter, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo at a Christening ceremony in the White House. After lunch he re. turned to his desk and was busy most of the afternoon with affairs of state, During the day plans developed into action, insuring agatnst any intrusion at the Galt home that might mar the wedding. Every precaution will be ued op Second Page) palsies FIVE ARE KILLED, 11 HURT, INB. AND 0, ROAD CRASH Afier Collision Express Train Runs | Into Wreck, but Es- capes Damage. mR, © Inille | probably fatally (Cont Pa., Dec, 1%.—Five per and eleven injured, one in @ rear-end collision between @ train bound from Wiimington to Chester and another of empty express Joara on the Baltimore und Ohto Ratt | two iniles south, of this i night. The aveldent occurred about 6 o'clock 4 impowsible for t the ls, Mow? Passengers. Were workmen tn iT plants at Wilming A Ww nt after ip train from Phi! |more crashed into Uttle damage r HIS WEDDING DAY’ President Pays Brief Visit to)‘ at 8.80 o'clock, | \ Mrs. Galt and President Who Wed To-Night | At Quiet Ceremony in the Bride’s Home BODDDOVI4DDDDHIDIGGI-IG PDODODH OE G44 Poe ee Stes ee oe er f & 2 * » > | ~ MRS.GALT ©wannis ec avvince, S @eee esses OOOO 804 100006 004.0 1G 1+ 19OO4449OO480000000080008 $0,000 BRIBE NOT ‘PROMISED’ - FOR WOOD, DECLARES PROUT PRESIDENT MARKS HIS WEDDING WITH . CLEMENCY TO CONVICTS| “T ‘owing Wood Along” Meant Soeteny ower d only once? asked Commissioner [ * Col, Prout nm “Yea” ed eA ei . Mr. Lewis read from Commiasioner WASHINGTON, Dev. 18.— President | Stringing” Him, SayS | wood's textimony ut this investigation | rit ania art as that Col, Prout had settled the $1,500 Wilegs, caahested hia wedd eel Signal Company Man }feo with him for alding the Kansas by extending executive lency’ tO) < City, Clay County & St, Joe Railway |xeveral convicty, He gay a full par- | he. | contract | Jon to Charls Conture ed at| Col Henry G. Prout continued be) wr Gig not meet him," said Col. | Miasowla, Mont., Sor acilink Nquer to » the Thompson Investigating Com-| Prout, “That was settled by letter Indians, He commuted the sentences | mitten this afternoon his explana-| @. Pid you know of any reason why | of D. L, Dillingham, convicted in| tion of his share tn offering a $f sidney G, Johaton was anxious to Georgia for operating an illicit dis-| bribe to Public Service Commissioner | AV" TIME Ait Cane k eae te? aE tllery, and William H. Hood, under] Robert C. Wood Was cab oe vine cae conviction or robbery in Alabama Th incident gave nn excuse to Col! Oi voy Kiow that ate. Wood at | | The President also made several ap-| Prout's enemles in the Union Switch | 4) time wan about to be made Pu pointments, He signed an exe and Signal Company to bounce HIM [ye goryioe Commssions A. t did not rder permitting the appointment of| from his 0 Job ax President of] y Mra Virginia Camphll, a rrandnioce | the corporat he declared Bottseoue A ahacman tact |of Thomas Jefferson, 1@ a Weds > lterday that he could remember har = ar aon Walter b. sition w to elvil ser na-}iy any of the details, ‘Phe Investlion | Upregram, 9 i led tre tlon; reinstated William 8 tors to-day did all they could Teaulleie i Giles wih Gam who had been removed as exa In} stimulate his flaxgiig memory and jony or with MeCure or Leve lithe New York Customs HH mn }help hin recall the det the clash yer director usted hin, | what tho President considered In his compan Pann ; rat rp ficient evidence, and ordered t Col, Prout im about seventy yeors | jy Sst aio, MOV EaRtLAO I Chale point t M. Sweet to a| old, alert, closeknit and wiry in butld, |. UN position in ti without ex-| shrewd and por nittal peeeh rhe on 1 ‘ with amination because of os in| full of qualifying cla and shUEting | pat Sig TAIN vonnection with the recen Air definitions. i — isan Pinamelal Congress. ' "You sad you met Commipgioagr (Qogtinued on Second Page) et eH CITY BANK CLERK CONFESSES STEALING SECRETS OF ALLIES FOR GERMAN GOVERNMENT Koenig, Alleged Active Head of Plot Here, Held in $50,000 Bail on Charge of Planning to Destroy Welland Canal. FOUR ARE NOW ARRESTED IN CONSPIRACY ROUND-UP ‘That the workings of German agents extended even into Police Heads quarters was stated this afternoon to Police Commissioner Woods ‘by Pad Koenig, reputed head of the German secret service here, and his secrotanyy, ur ham ‘The disclosure resulted tn the famney FERRYBOAT CRASHES INTO STEAMER IN FOG The Manhattan Rams Unidentified Vessel Off Bedloe’s Island and Is Damaged—One Hurt. Seventy feet of the lower cabin on the men's side of the Municipal forryboat Manhattan were amashed in and ripped off this morning at 7.20 o'clock, when the boat became lost In the fog and collided with the stern of an unknown steamer anchored off Bedloo's Island Fortunately, there were only about sixty and the only man hurt was George B, Carter, fifty-seven, a carpenter living at No. 220 Third Avenue, Brooklyn. He suatained light lacerations of tho scalp from flying glass The ferryboat waa in charge of Captain Gordon O'Brien, The boat seems to have swung into the steam- hip broadside yn, the damaged por- tion extending from a point amid- ships back to the stern, On reaching ‘her slip at St. George, half an hour te, the damage was estimated at $15,000, The fog this morning was particu larly thick in tho inner harbor. The pasuengors aboard, diate summoning from vacation of Detective Otto F, Mattola of the Wae rant Squad, who, according to Koenig and Metzler, had been tn thelr employ ‘At @ salary of $3 a day to furnish them information regarding the sailing of ocean steamships. ‘They also stated that he had at their request investl- wated & passenger who sailed for Bu+ rope recently on the steamship Ber- gensftjord. Mattola was interrogated at length by Inspector Gray and Lieut. Funston and, while he admitted knowing Koe- nig, said he did not know Metaler et all. He deuied ever receiving a peany from Koenig In & loone-leaf diary carried by Koenig were found entries of Mat. tola’s home address, the telephone number of Police Headquarters and this sentence: Can get at FYret Branch at 8.45 in the evening.” Deputy Commissioner Lord directed that charges he preferred against Mattola for engaging in other than Police businoss. Police Commissioner this afternoon: “This Is one of the sravest charges which could be brought against a member of the de partment, particularly in times lke these, Mattola has been on the force for twenty-one years. and for the last ten years has been the Detective Bureau Local officials of the Department of Justice sald this afternon that Koenig Woods said Holland-America Liner Noordam, to-| had twanty-five operatives under him gether with a number of other ehips,| all of them designated by numbers, made Quarantine without much ditfi-] Koenig's being "30", They said they cu but were unable to proceed for| had discovered that Koenig wag in | hours. constant touch with’ Capts. Boy- The Provider of the Fall River|and von Papen, the German attaches, Line was stopped by the fox off Cot-|and that his operativ 1 Point ‘at 6 o'clock and did not] acted as bedyguards to proceed until nearly 10 o'clock, The] ‘The activities of German secret eorgian of the Hay State Line and] agents algo ied to-day to the vauite the Concord of the Colonial Line were | nat City Bank, Frederick wo held up, Scheind} of the come edit de- | artment of that institution was ar SHOT FROM DESTROYER ed this morning at his home, Nov. M6 Br Avenue, the Bronx, vaults records, valued at $1 aiv- ng confidential information regard on Fires on the Saratoga, | ng the shipment of war munitions to the Allies Which Disregarded Signal A cablegram sent to the bank tn Stop quiring about @ shipment of 2,000,000 fles, w hn 1 abstracting The destrove H fred a from yank los found in shot at the Ward L ner sara ogn, outward \ 1 Sehein 1 Centre fay w 8 Pol Court and held in t $25,000 for exau ion Monday Tnimedia was) He adm Govman reser oe _ q u vbstraction of SAILING TO-DAY. f about $400 tor the dapumes ‘ ’ 1 ered to Paui Tennyson, Argentina .........12M. Koenig Espagne, Bordeaux ........., 9P,M. Koenig and Richard Emil Lgen- i a. | 7