The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-06
Dumba Declares He Can Make
Satisfactory Explanation to
Secretary Lansing Tuesday
MUNITION MAKERS TO
BE GIVEN OTHER JOBS
Declares He Is Performing Ser
vice for Which Austria Sent
him to This Country Ar
chibald Stupid

Lenox, Mass, Sept. 5.-Dr. Con-
stantin 7. Dumba, the Austro- Hun
garian Ambassador, will leave Lenox
tomorrow morning for New York en-
route for Washington. where he ex-
poets to have an interview with Sec
rotary Of State Lansing, and to ex-
plain how James E. j. Archibald. the
American correspondent, happened to
be the bearer of secret dispatches to
;lts<s-+tap eFisi--AastE4sfa government
and also to explain what was meant by
the letter written by DIR. Dumba in
New York on August 20 to Foreign
Minister Burian In Vienna. suggesting
that embarrassment could be caused
the munition plants through the call
ing out of men OF Austro- Hungarian
citizenship. To newspaper cores
pondents he admitted writing the let
ter and said. Il can't understand how
Archibald could have been 80 stupid
Dr. Dumba attaches very little inn
portance to the report cabled from
London. and seeks an interview with
Secretary Of State Lansing.
The dispatches which Archibald car
ried were delivered to him in New
York at a dinner at which Count
Bernstorff, DIR. Dumba and Archiba d
were present II looked to the Am
bassadors as a good means OF COM
municating by dispatches to the gov
ernments and full copies OF everything
which Archibald carried are In the
hands OF the German and Austrian
am bassadors.
Find Other Work For Them.
DR.. Dumha received the correspon-
dents this afternoon at the summer
| embassy. He said that sle would give
complete statement OF the position
of Aussro-H Hungary in connection with
/ it's own citizens employed In Bethle-
! hem and In other steel producing
centers after he had called upon Sec
rotary OF State Lansing and the Score.
tary OF Labor next Tuesday. DIR, Dunn.
ha said frankly thai the propoAai waa
NOT hing more, or less than calling Out
lof the munition- making plants this
citizen. Of Austria Hungary esdsh,
tahlishing labor employment
/, bureau. nnd other work for them
/ This would be a costly undertaking.
and one for which the sanction OF the
| imperial government was necessary.
| DIR. Dumha denied that there was
a nything in the dispatch Archibald
carried which was not entirely propc,
| to communicate to his government
There was memorandum of the mum.
| her of Hungarians and other OF Aus.
trian citizenship employed at varion!
steel works and some other informa,
! ton which was perfectly proper 70.
! tsne ambassador to communicate to hi:
government.
+, There was nothing In the dis.
/ patches which Archibald carried tha'
/ cannot be satisfactorily explained
1 said DR. Dumha. The proposals re
garding embarrassing steel worker.
we're nothing more than a proper me
thod to be taken to bring before oul
races employed In the big stee
works the fact that they were en-
gagged In enterprises which are un
friendly to their fatherland and tina
the imperial government would hole
the workers in munition plants wher,
contracts are being filled for the al
lies with being guilty Of serioul
/ crime against their country. some
thing that would be punishable by i'm
i prisonment or penal servitude. shoult
] they return TO their own country"
Merely DR. Dumba's Duty.
There are thousands of working
men in the big steel industries, ma
! tives OF Bohemia. Moravia. Carniola
! Dalmatia. Croatia. Slavonia and othel
peoples OF the races from Austro
Hungary, who are uneducated ant
who do not understand that they arr
engaged in a war agains. their owr
country. In order to bring this be
| fore them, l have subsidized man!
newspapers published in the language.
and dialects Of the divisions mention
ed. attempting In this way to br<n.
their felonious actions to our atten
/ ton. They are even working then