The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
vienna MAY BE
ASKED TO RECALL
PERNICIOUS AIDE
Wilson to Act Only If Austria
Hungary Does Not.
Friendship Best Served by Trip
by Dumba Home.
VACATION MAY Be SUFFICIENT
President Very Reluctant to
Take Initial Action.
Exit of Rusem Bay Recalled as
"One Way Out"
Friendship Best Served by Trip
by Dumba Home.
VACATION MAY Be SUFFICIENT

Washington, Sept. Sunless ths
Austrian government itself takes some
step in the cause of DR.. Constantin
Dumba, the diplomatic incident grow
ing out of the disclosure of the am
bassador's connection with plans for
hampering manufacture of war muni-
tions in the United States probably
will be called to the attention of the
Vienna foreign office.
Further developments in the case
today awaited receipt of certain docu-
mentary evidence which President
Wilson and Secretary Lansing are eX-
pecting from London. In the mean
while officials regarded II as not i'm
possible that unless the ambassador
himself or his foreign office took some
step, it might be intimated to Vienna
that the good relations between the
United States and Austria Hungary
would best be preserved by the pres
ence of another ambassador. The ex-
act procedure, however, has not been
decided on.
Those closest to the president de-
scribed his attitude as being very re-
luctant to take initial action. He
hopes the situation will be relieved by
the action of the ambassador himself
or his government. 1t has been re-
ported the ambassador contemplated
taking vacation to attend to personal
business at home. That might satisfy
the needs of diplomacy.
A. Rusem Bey, the ambassador
from Turkey took leave of absence
some time ago after making public
statement which violated diplomatic
decorur1.
ArchibaId's Passports Cancelled.
Secretary Lansing has cancelled
the passports of James F. ].
Archibald. the American corre-
spondent upon whom British se-
ttions from DIR. Consta ntin4 Dumba, the
Austro- Hungarian agent, to his for
eign office on the subject of foment-
ing strikes in American munitions
plants.
Gets Pass Back Home.
Archibald now is at Rotterdam. and
American Minister Van Dyke has beer
instructed to issue an emergency pass
port to permit his return to the United
States.
The department of justice probably
will be called upon to decide if he has
violated any law of the United States
in acting as a messenger for one of
the European belligerents.
Cancellation of Archibald's pass
ports is the first official action in
diplomatic situation which it has been
suggested might possibly extend so far
as to cause the departure of DIR. Dunn
ba from this country
American government officials were
amazed at the disclosures which fol-
lowed Archibald's detention at Fall
mouth, and were particularly annoyed
that an American passport had peer
used to carry what practically
amounts to military information.
Dumba Defends Action.
DIR. Dumba has made his explana-
tions to Secretary Lansing, saying the
only instructions from his government
were to give widest publicity to the de-
cree announcing enforcement of the
Austro- Hungarian penal code against
subjects who gagged in manufacture
of war munitions for their country's
enemies. He contended he was fully
within his rights in warning his coun-
trymen.
derStood will not be reached until
more documentary evidence comes
from London.