DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

148 CASE OF THE ANCONA.
and occupied principally by crew. Great number boats,
probably sufficient for save all passengers, remained unoccupied
after 50 minutes. Submarine in presence other
approaching steamer submerged and torpedoed Ancona,
which sank after 45 minutes. If passengers lost life, this
by crew's fault, because steamer tried escape when received
order for stopping, and then crew only saved themselves
not passengers. Foreign press reports submarine
fired on lifeboats mendacious inventions. When steamer
stopped submarine ceased firing.
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Consul White to the Secretary of State.
AMERICAN CONSULATE,
Naples, December 6, 1915.
SIR: In compliance with the Department's cabled
instruction of the 13th ultimo l to obtain if possible affidavits
of survivors of the S. S. Ancona and a subsequent
instruction received through the Embassy at Eome,
there are enclosed herewith statements and affidavits as
follows:
1. Statement of the captain in command.
2. Statement of the first officer.
3. Verbal statement made by the first officer in the
presence of J. P. Jackson, lieutenant commander, United
States Navy, assistant attache, naval, American Embassy
at Rome, and William Garguilo, clerk of the American
consulate at Naples.
4. Copy of an affidavit made by Mrs. Cecile L. Greil,
in the presence of Lieut. Com. J. P. Jackson and Edward
H. Capp, employed at the American Consulate at Naples,
and sworn to before Jay W. White, American consul at
Naples.
5. Copy of an affidavit made by Mrs. Greil before
Dean B. Mason, American consul at Algiers, Algieria.
6. Copy of an affidavit made by Irlando Patalivo,
American citizen, in presence of Dr. Buonacore, American
Public Health Service, contract physician, and William
Gargiulo, signed by Jay White, American consul at
Naples.
7. Statement made by Dr. Tomasso Giordano, senior
doctor of the S. S. Ancona, made in the presence of Lieut.
Com. J. P. Jackson and Dr. Buonacore.
8. Statement made by Mr. Alberto Piscione, cabin
passenger on the S. S. Ancona, made in the presence of
Lieut. Com. J. P. Jackson and William Gargiulo.
9. Statement made by Isaac Strachlevitz, a British
subject, and passenger on the S. S. Ancona, made in the
presence of William Gargiulo and Edward H. Capp,
and sworn to before Jay White, consul of the United
States at Naples.
10. Affidavit made by Domenico Tamboni, steerage
passenger on the S. S. Ancona, made in the presence of
Dr. Buonacore and Nicola Guarini, clerk in the Naples
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