New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-04
DUMBA ATTACKS
SERB PROFESSOR
Austrian Ambassador Crit
icises Pupin, of Columbia,
for Fantastic" Charges.

Constantin Theodor Dumba, the Aus
tro- Hungarian Ambassador, issued a
statement yesterday attacking Pro-
fessor VI. /. Pupin, Of Columbia Uni
ycrsity. honorary Servian Consul Cen
cral, for his interviews in which he
has denied the existence Of a PanSerb
agitation in Serva and has accused
Austria of tyranny over her Servian
subjects. The statement Of the am
Lassador. who is at his summer home,
in Manchester. Mass, was issued by the
consul general here.
"Mr. Pupin ought to be a little more
cautious when speaking of his profound
contempt for Austria" Mr.. Dumba
said. "He belongs 30 a nation whose
bloody deeds filed with horror the
whole civilized world" The statement
in part follows:
Gas Professor Pupin is continually
asserting to the press that there is no
Pan-Serb agitation in Servia and that
Austrian tyranny is responsible for the
Pan-Serb movement in Austria, | am
reluctantly compelled to deny the cor
rectness Of his statement.
81 happen to be in possession OF a
manifesto of the central board Of the
Narodna Obrana in Belgrade, the So
ciety the dissolution of which formed
one of the points Of our ultimatum.
can only translate few passages of
this declaration addressed to Servian
and Croatidn newspapers in the United
States:
tThe Narodna 0brana is a widely
extending organization which exercises
a propaganda for all that strengthens
our nation in the direction Of liberia
At
work since the annexation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina Later on: please
comply with this invitation with en-
thusiasm. You are all born in a land
where there is no liberty (Which means
the Dual Monarchy. You are children
Of nation to which liberation must
come
an spite Of this cautious wording, il
is perfectly clear that the real object
Of the society is to bring about the
separation of the Serbian and Croatian
provinces from Austria Hungary and
their union with the kingdom. In the
face of these facts it seems rather bald
TO maintain that a Pan-Serb agitation
does not exist in the kingdom Of Ser
via. One has only to read the incendi-
airy press Of Belgrade, which enjoys the
greatest license, to be convinced of the
contrary.
"Now let US examine a little closer
Mr.. pupin's fantastic charge that Aus
tria's tyranny cannot find its parallel
in the darkest Middle Age The Serbs
and Croatians have everywhere in the
Dual Monarchy their schools, their
law courts, with hearings in their
own language. In the provinces of
Dalmatia and Istria, which are mostly
inhabited by Croatians, the Croatian
language is the official Language of the
administration and of the debates in
the provincial Diet. The Italian mi
nority in these two provinces com
plains of the Partially of the Austrian
authorities in favor Of the Croatians.
"The real issue, as | declared before,
is the maintenance OF our rule in Bos-
mia and the border provinces. The de-
fiant attitude Of the Servian kingdom,
the shameless attack Of its press, could
no longer be tolerated. Austria Hun
gary wanted not the conquest of new
territory. II acted in self-defence
when asking for guarantees for the
future"