President Wilson has sent another Note to Austria in reply
to the impertinent and evasive Note with which the Austrian Government tried to defay a settlement of the ' Ancona question. The Times correspondent at Washington says that the Note is not an ultimatum in form, but amounts to an ulti- matum. If Austria does not capitulate, there will be a rupture of relations. An interesting question is whether in that event America can possibly maintain relations with Germany, who, after all, has done worse things than her ally, and has not yet given any satisfactory answer about the 4 Lusitania.' Some reports say that Germany is strongly urging Austria to yield. And there is some support for this belief in the fact that the German Government have disavowed and denounced the German plotters of violence in the United States.
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