The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-14
DEMANDS
RECALL Of DUMbA
FOR STRIKE PLOT
Message Sent to U. S. Envoy at
Vienna.
NOTE is MADE PUBLIC
Secretary's Action Is Americas Reply
to Explanation of Letter Intercept
ed by British OfficiaIs-Archi-
bald Claims He Is innocent.

Washington, Sept. 1O.-Ambassador
Penfield at Vienna was instructed by
cable to inform the Austro-Rungarian
government that DR.. Constantin Dunn
ba no longer is acceptable as an en-
voy to the United States, and to ask
for his recall
Secretary Lansing formally an
nounced the action
Secretary of State Lansing gave out
the following statement:
The department has instructed Am
bassador Penfeld at Vienna to de-
liver to the minister for foreign af-
fairs the following note:
MIR. Constantin Dumba, the Aus
tro-Hungarian ambassador at Wash
ington, has admitted that he proposed
to his government plans to instigate
strikes in American manufacturing
plants engaged in the production of
munitions of war. The information
reached this government through
copy of letter of the ambassador to
his government. The bearer was an
American citizen named Archibald,
who was travelling under an American
passport. The ambassador has admit
ted that he employed Archibald to
bear official dispatches from him to
his government.
By reason of the admitted pur-
pose and intent of Mr.. Dumba to con-
spire to cripple industries of the peo-
pie of the United States and to inter-
rupt their legitimate trade, and by
reason of the fragrant violation of dip
lomatic propriety in employing an
American passport as a secret bearer
of official dispatches through the
lines of the enemy of Austria-Hun-
gary, the president directs me to in
form your eXcellency that Mr.. Dumba
is no longer acceptable to the govern
ment of the United States as the am
bassador of his imperial majesty at
Washington.
Believing that the imperial and
royal government will realize that the
government of the United States has
no alternative but to request the re-
call of Mr. Dumba on account of his
improper conduct, the government of
the United States expresses it's deep
est regret that this course has be-
come necessary and assures the i'm
perial and royal government that it
sincerely desires to continue the cor
dial and friendly relations which exist
between the United States and Aus
tria-Hungary.'
Is U. S. Reply to Explanation.
1t was the answer Of the American
PLANTATION of his intercepted letter to
Vienna outlining plans for handicap
ping plants in this country making
war supplies for the allies.
Doctor Dumba, after telling of writ
ing the letter which was taken by
British officers from James F. J. Arch
ibald at Falmouth, asserted that he
acted on orders of his government.
Instructed to Warn Austrians.
He said that he had been instruct
ed to give the widest publicity to a
decree announcing enforcement of the
subjects who engaged in manufac-
ture of war munitions for their coun-
try's enemies.
He contended he was fully within
his rights in warning his countrymen.
Could Tie Up Plants in U. S.
The letter which Archibald was car
rying to Vienna was addressed to
Minister of Foreign Affairs Burian.
In it Doctor Dumba said he could dis
organize and hold up for months, if
not entirely prevent, the manufacture
of munitions IN Bethlehem and the
middle West"
Dumba asked Burian to reply by
wireless if he approved measures of
this kind in America
Archibald Says He Is Innocent.
Archibald has declared his limo
cence in the controversy. He said he
knew nothing of the contents of the
letter which he declared was given
him at the pier just as he was sailing
for Europe.
He has declared he would return to
America and restore himself to the
confidence of his countrymen.
The United States has cancelled
Archibald's passports. He is now at
Rotterdam where Minister Van DYKE
has been instructed to issue an emer-
gency passport to permit his return to
the United States.
After his return the department of
justice will be called on to decide II
he has violated any law of the United
States in acting as messenger for
one of the European belligerents.