New Britain herald., 1915-09-06
PLAN TO CRIPPLE ''' ]. PLANTS ADMITTED
Dunbar Thinks Methods Of Stop
 , ping Munition Work Fair :.

Lenox, Mass, Sept e.-Dr Con- stantin Theodor Dumba, the Austro- Hungarian am bassador, admitted yes- terday that he gave James J. Archi- band, an American newspaper corres- rondent, a letter for delivery to Foreign Minister Burian in Vienna, in which he proposed certain meas ureS to be taken tC hamper the manufacture of munitions for the Allies in America. '-.-
 Dr. -Dumba did not seem perturbed ' over the detention of Archibald at Falmouth and the confiscation of the letter and other official documents which the German and Austro- Hun garian embassies in this country had lntrusted to him for delivery to some officials of their respective govern ments. He defended as entirely legi- timate the measures which he pro- rosed in his letter, as calculated to restrict the output of munitions for the Allies.
 According to dispatches cabled to this country, the letter written by pr. Dumba, which was found in Archi- bald'e cabin on the steamship Rotter- dam, represented that we can dis organize and hold up for months, if not entirely prevent, the manufac- ture of munitions in Bethlehem and the middle west, which, in the opinion of the German military attache, is of great importance and amply out 1, weighs the expenditure of the money involved" This object was to be ac- complished by means of strikes among the subjects of Austra Hun gary employed in the intuition plants.
 Will Explain to Lansing.
 pr. Dumba left today for New York en route to Washington to see Secre- tary of State Lansing and explain the letter. To newspaper correspondents he said in a jocose way: 1T can't un- derstand how Archiband could have been so stupid"
 pr. Dumba seeks the interview with Secretary Lansing with the idea of preventing the acceptance as genuine l of any garbled copy of his letter. The 1 letter it is said, has been photo l graphed and a copy sent to the state 1 department. r r
 The dispatches which Archibald carried were delivered to him in New York at a dinner at which Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador; Dr. Dumba, and Archibald were pres eT1t. It seemed to the ambassadors to be a good opportunity for communi eating bulky dispatches to their gov ernments Full copies of all the docu- ments Archibald carried remain in the hands of ambassadors.
 Dr. Dumba received the correspond ents at the embassy on Field Hill. He said that he would give complete statement of the position of Austria Hungary in connection with the em- ployment of subjects of that country at Bethlehem and other steel centers after he had called upon Secretary of State Lansing and the secretary of labor next Tuesday. Dr. Dumba said that the proposal was nothing more or less than calling out of the munition plants the subjects of Austria Hun gary, and by establishing a labor bureau to find other work for them. This would be costly undertaking, he points out, and one for which the sanction of the imperial government was necessary.
 Dr. Dumba denied that there was anything in the dispatch Archibald carried which was not entirely proper to communicate to his government There was memorandum of the number of Hungarians and other sub- jects of the empire employed at vari- ous steel works, and some other in- formation, all perfectly proper, he de- clared, for the ambassador to com municate to his government.
 There was nothing in the dis patches which Archibald carried that cannot be satisfactorily explained"