New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-17
BRITISH SEIZURE
TICKLES COUNT
Bernstorff Believes Faux
Pas" Spells Defeat OF
Loan to Allies.
DUMBA MAY BEAR
MESSAGES TO BERLIN
Austrian Diplomat Sees COL
league Here and May Trans
nit Papers to Chief.

Nothing that England has done
lately has so pleased Count Won Bern
storY. the German Ambassador, as the
seizure Of s15,OOO,Ooo worth Of Amer
lean goods by her prize court yester-
day. He made no secret OF his beiief
that thi, faux pas" by Great Britain
would play into the hands OF the pro-
German interests who are trying TO
stop negotiations for sl,ooo,oOo'Ooo
Anglo French war loan in this country
To persons In his confidence Count
Won Bernstortf expressed the behef
that this move Of England's would
make the American public, which, after
all, would have tho last say in the
matter of granting big war loan to
the Allies, think we'll before deciding
He believes that the report Of this
British seizure, il true, will materially
increase the bad feeling against Eng
land which has manifested itself In the
Middle West and South.
DR.. Heinrich Albert, the German
financial agent, met Count Won Bern
storff at the Ritz Carlton Hotel last
night after the ambassadors return
from a motor trip to the German sum-
mer embassy in Cedarhurst, Long ISL
and He carried a bulky portfolio on
entering the Ritz, and it was believed
that he came prepared to submit to his
chief the reports which German agents
have gathered about the progress Of
the billion dollar Anglo-French war
loan.
81 am in no position 70 make any
statement for publication" DR.. Albert
declared when he was asked for an in
terview. Anything for publication
must come from Count Won Bernstorf. -
The ambassador declined TO give out
any statement beyond reiteratlng ms
belief that the political horizon would
be cloudless within the next two weeks
as far as the United States and Ger
many are concerned.
Prince Won Hohenlohe Schillings-
fuerst, first secretary Of the Austro-
Hungarian Embassy, was the dinner
guest Of Count Won Bernstorf last
night. He said he had come TO town
with Nine. Dumbs, wife of the Austro-
Hungarian Ambassador, whose recall
has been asked by the American gov
eminent.
"Mme. Dumba has left for Washington
to make farewell calls" Prince Hohen-
lobe admitted.
1t is generally believed that Prince
Won Hohenlohe Is here to receive I'M
portant verbal messages from Count
Won Bernsto for his chief, who Will
later transmit them to the German
Forcing Office. The Tribune mas
learned from an authentic source that
Count Won Bernstorff realizes this un-
usual opportunity Of presenting to his
home government intimate views which
il has been impossible for him to trans
nit in any other way and which he
considers essential for the future dip
lomatic relations between this country
and Germany.
DR.. Dumba will have to travel
through Berlin on his way back to Vi
emma, and it is foregone conclusion
that he will have a talk with officials or
the Berlin government before continu-
ing His homeward journey. Although
Prince Hohenlohe denied last night
that he knew the date set for the de-
parture of his chief, it was generally
reported in well informed circles that
DR.. Dumba would leave before this
month was over.