Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-10
DR.DUMbAE EXPECTED
PRESIDENT ACTION
Austrian Embassy Attache
Says Envoy Not Surprised
U. S. Asked His Recall.
COUNSELOR ZWIEDINSK
DEFENDS AMBASSADOR
Says He Is Sorry Matter Of Send
ing Letter Done in Such
a Rush."

NEW YORK, September 10.-Dr.
constantin Theodor Dumba, ambassador
from Austria Hungary, whose recall has
been asked for by the United States gov
ernment, today conferred in his suite in
an uptown hotel with Count Won Bern
storff, the German ambassador. The sub
ject of the conference could not be ascer-
tained.
Both DR.. Dumba and Count Won Bern
Storff remained in seclusion in their re-
spective hotels the better part of the day.
DR.. Dumba, so far as could be determined,
did not leave his suite He denied himself
to all callers. and it was repeatedly said
by officials of the hotel that he had left
for the summer embassy at Lenox, Mass.
During the afternoon, however, a secre-
tary of DR.. Dumba left the hotel, being
away but few minutes. He returned in
an automobile with Count Won Bernstorff,
who hurried into an elevator. which took
him to the floor upon which is located the
suite of the ambassador from Austria
Hungary: Before ascending. Count Won
Eernstorh, in reply to questions, said he
had nothing to say.
Count Won Hohenlohe, an attaehe of the
Austrian embassy, In answer to many
requests for an expression regarding
the action of the United States gov
ernment, made the following state
ment:
THE action of Mr.. Lansing and the
State Department had been anticipated
and is no surprise to DR.. Dumba.'
This was the only. official comment
from any representative of the Aus
trian embassy here up to that time.
The two ambassadors went for a
drive yesterday evening and dined to-
gether upon their return. Count Won
Bernstorff said that he intended today
to go to his summer place at Cedar
hurst. L. l. DR.. Dumba had nothing to
say regarding his future movements.
Counselor Zwiedinsk's Statement.
LENoX. Mass. September 1o-Baron
Erich Zwiedinsk. counselor of the
Austro-Hungarian embassy. who will
become charge d'affaires after the re-
call of Ambassador Dumba, issued the
supplementing an informal expression
of opinion last night.
Il know DR.. Dumba personally very
well, and from my conversations with
him I could not think that he should
have intended fomenting strikes in
munitions plants We have certainly
and naturally felt satisfaction when
reading in the papers of difficulties and
strikes in factories making munitions
for the allies, but to foment such thing
solutely impossible undertaking that it
would be for me quite inconceivable
that DR.. Dumba should have suddenly
had such an idea.
"One has only to think Of the enor-
nous number Of laborers employed in
these factories, which runs into the
hundreds Of thousands. to realize how
many millions Of dollars woufd be nee
essary to produce any practical effect
DR.. Dumba, SO far as have understood,
asked for only a few thousand dollars,
SO 1t seems to me evident that he had
only humanitarian idea in mind, as he
also mentioned to me when returning
from New York.
THE imperial and royal government
had pointed out the legal penalties
which would be incurred by Austro-
Hungarian subjects who returned home
from America after the war IL they had
worked in factories making munitions
for the allies. These penalties would
not only have been those prescribed by
the law for helping enemies of the
monarchy, but much more so those of
public opinion. as in the case of a man
who had made munitions for the allies
who should go back to his home viii
lage, perhaps, to inherit the property
of men who had been killed by those
munitions.
Naturally these conditions IL brought
to their attention might have caused a
certain number of Austro-Hungarian
subjects to leave their employment in
American munition factories and l had
DccH Vi Tic opiHiOl tHdI LIE. DuInDd y
plans were designed only to give aid to
needy workingmen who had given up
their work and had not yet found other
employment. The small sum of money
suggested in this connection. 1 believe
only $4,000, would have been absolute
ly insufficient to finance a strike.
Sorry Letter Sent in Rush.
Besides, I am quite certain that II.
on second thought, DR.. Dumba had
come to the conclusion that his ideas
were not in accord with the duties and
obligations toward the United States
government imposed by his position
here, he would have withdrawn him
self. Therefore. even II appearances at
first should be against him: ! am es. e,
sending this letter has been done in
such rush, I am confident naaa+ that hal the the
the slightest desire for any complica- :
tions or difficulties with TIT the I'm United ed
the cordial and friendly relations which
have always existed between the two
governments and which have been en-
nh Of late"