The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-19
Austrian Ambassador Pro- tests That Requests for
 His Recall Are Unjust
DISSEMINATION BY
 THE UNITED STATES
Claims Restrictions Have Been Placed on His Communications With His Government and Not Upon Those
 of Allied Representatives

New York, September 1s-Dr Constan-
 tin Dumba, Austro- Hungarian ambassa- dor to the United States, whose recall has been asked because of his admitted conspiracy to instigate strikes In Amert- can intuition plants, defends his actions in long letter sent to Secretary Lan-
 sing yesterday and made public by the ambassador here tonight
 Dr. Dumba protests that the request for his recall Is unjust and complains of the restrictions imposed by the Wash ington government upon his communica- ton with Vienna.
 He says the diplomatic representatives of the allies in this country enjoy un- censored use of the cables, a privilege denied him.
 Dr. Dumba takes exception to Secretary Lansing's charge that he confessed to having conspired to bring about strikes in American munition works and declares he has communicated with his govern ment asking for leave of absence that he may explain his position.
 The recall of Dr. Dumba was asked after Washington had received a copy
 
 government through James F. J. Archi- bald, an American citizen, travelling un- der an American passport. The ambas- sa dor admitted having intrusted Archi- bald with the letter to Vienna bearing on his plans for withdrawing Austro- Hungarian labor and handicapping Amer ican plants making war munitions for the allies.
 Complaining of the restrictions placed unOU him ho Arr,o ri vutra aIoo censorship, the amba ssador In his letter says:
 "As the Austro-Hungarian ambassador Is and has been for many months pa ast in the phenomenal position of being un- able to communicate privately with his government although our enemies are and have been permitted freely to use the ca bles for their secret code dispa tches without censorship, I have. by the gra ca of your department, now been permitted to communicate with my government through the German embassy, but to the extent only of asking for leave of ab- sence to the end that I may In person | suspend judgment upon the charges con tained in your excellencys message and am now awaiting a reply
 Rejected by Censor l "I have not been even allowed to ad- NiSo ny government that QO not dQ- init having conspired to do any act in violation of the laws of the country to which I am accredited, and whose hos pitality I have enjoyed and have in no way abused. The message that I sought to have transmitted to that effect was rejected by your censor, as hereafter ex- plained. In some unaccountable way this I confidential message was communicated I tc the press and has been published. | "I, of course, do not and cannot l question the power of the government
 of the United States to dismiss me by
 handing me my passports and assur- | ing me safe conduct home without as- ! signing any reason therefor or on such I grounds as 1t may deem sufficient
 without regard to my opinion as to it's justice. When, however, your gov I ernment sees fit to resort to the ex- | traordinary and to me humiliatins course of preferring charges against
 me to my government, without advis-
 ing me of the intended action or even | intimating that such action is contem-
 plated, and to request my recall upon | those charges as confessed, whilst at
 the same time refusing me permi ssion