New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-10
Plan to Hamper Arms
Work Declared
Conspiracy.
ENVOY mot
ACCEPTABLE"
Will Be Given Passports
if Austria Refuses
TO Act.
BERNSTORFF CASE UP
BERNSTORFF CASE UP
Backing of Anti-Muritions
Agency Here Being Consid.
cred by Officials.
From The Tribune Bureau !

aSnlnBIOn, Oepl. ~ Hc HuS-
tro- Hungarian government has been 7
asked by President Wilson. through
the American Ambassador at vi
erna. to recall DR.. Constantin I.
Dumba, Ambassador to the United
States. Thus the activities Of Aus
tria-Hungary'1 envoy here in plan
ming to hamper manufactures OF war
munitions will be brought 10 an end,
as was indicated exclusively in The
Tribune this morning.
According to international usage.
the Austro- Hungarian government
has no alternative but TO call DR..
Dumba home. ut is general rule"
international law experts say, that
no nation has a right TO keep an
agent within the limits Of another
without the consent Of that other
Il Secretary Lansing's note 10
the Austro-Hungarian government
it is declared that as DR.. Dumba's ad-
nlitted plan 10 instigate strikes M
American munitions plants engaged
in the production of munitions OF
war constituted conspiracy to Grip
pie legitimate industries in this
country he no longer was acceptable
TO this country. Further, the note
calls DR.. Dumba's employment OF an
American citizen to carry dispatches
to Austria fagrant breach Of dip
lomatic propriety. Consequently, he
was mo longer acceptable" to this
country. This Is equivalent TO ask
ing that he recalled.
The request for DR.. Dumba's re-
recall has probably already been
presented by Ambassador Penheld to
Count Burian, the Austria-Hun-
garian Minister of Foreign Affairs
the same man to whom DR.. Dunn
ba's letter telling of his plans for
strikes in the ammunition plants
here was addressed
No Further Trouble Expected.
The governments action created
sensation here tonight. In ofici,l
circles il was declared that the posi-
tive stand of President Wilson and
Secretary Lansing would have a sslu-
tary effect on the relations between
this country and Germany. II is the
first drastic step that the President
has taken since the war began.
In some quarters it was asserted
that the Austrian government woulc
take umbrage and either hand pass
ports to Mr. Penheld or decline TO fill
DR.. Dumba's place. but no such action
is anticipated by the President and
Secretary Lansing.
Should the Austrian government fJr
any reason decline to recall Ambassa-
dor Dumba. Secretary Lansing will
hand him his passports, and thus com
pei him 10 leave the United States
This would create a rather tense stu
ation between Austria and the United
States, but neither President Wilson
nor Secretary Lansing believe that the
Austrian government will allow the
controversy to proceed that far.
Coincident with the sending Of the
instructions TO Ambassador Penfelo.
Dr. Dumba was furnished with a copy
of the note. This is in accordance
with diplomatic usage. and is equivs.
lent to notification that the United
States can no longer deal with him as
the representative of his government,
but will be obliged TO eommunics.e
with his government through other
channels.
No Hint on Bernstorn.
No intimation was given by the State
Department as 10 whether or not siml-
lar action would be taken in the case
of Count Won Bernstorf, the German
Ambassador, whose activities In urging
Germans TO leave ammunition plants
were outlined in The Tribune this
morning.
Thus far no evidence has been pro-
duced 10 show that the German am
bassador has endeavored TO instiaate
strikes, but il is understood here his
work has been perilously close to this
line.
Close watch has been kept by the
special agents OF the Department OF
Justice on the activities OF both Am
ba.sadors Dumba and Bernstorf, esps-
eially on the wage bureau" backed by
Count Won BernstorN, where money
was paid 70 men who had quit work at
munitions plants. An official OF IN"
department explained that this watch
was being kept TO determine IL any lay
was being violated.
A man in close touch with the de-
partment said to-day that enough evil
dence had been furnished TO the State
Department several times TO have
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