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SS Ancona torpedo sinking in 1915....
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November 10, 1915
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Massachusetts, November 10, 1915
* SS Ancona sinking
* German U-Boat U-38
* World War I - WWI
This 20 page newspaper has three column headlines on the front page:
* ANCONA TORPEDOED; OVER 200 LOST
* Liner Sunk By Large Austrian Submarine
* CARRIED 422 PASSENGERS FOR NEW YORK
with subheads. (see) 1st report on the sinking of the SS Ancona by the German U-Boat U-38.
Other news of the day. Usual browning with some spine wear, otherwise good. Should be handled with care.
wikipedia notes: In November 1915 U-38 caused a diplomatic incident when she sank the Italian passenger liner Ancona off the coast of Tunisia, while sailing under the Austrian flag. The Ancona, bound from Messina to New York, was fully booked and over 200 lives were lost, including 9 Americans. Coming as it did 6 months after the sinking of the Lusitania off Ireland, the Ancona sinking added to a growing outrage in the US over unrestricted submarine warfare, and US Secretary of State Robert Lansing despatched a sternly-worded protest to Vienna.
After receiving no satisfactory response from Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Baron István Burián von Rajecz, in December 1915 the US demanded that the Habsburg government denounce the sinking and punish the U-boat commander responsible. Germany, then concerned to maintain American neutrality, advised Burián to accede to the US demands, and Vienna eventually agreed to pay an indemnity and assured Washington that the U-boat commander would be punished, although this was a meaningless promise since he was a German officer. Following the settlement of the affair, the Austro-Hungarian government requested that German submarines refrain from attacking passenger vessels while flying the Austrian flag.
Category: The 20th Century
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