New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-29
Austrian Ambassador Asks
for Safe Conduct
Gets Passports.
CAN CROSS OCEAN
WITHOUT HlNDRANCE
State Department Will Now
Take Up Case of Captain
Won Papen.
Irrom The Tribune bureau

Washington, Sept. 2s.-Dr. Constan-
tin T. Dumba. Austrian Ambassador to
the United States. has been formally
recalled by tho Vienna government.
This announcement was made to-day
by Acting Secretary Polk after receipt
Of cable dispatch from Ambassador
PenAeld in Vienna telling Of his con-
versation with Austrian officials A
record Of this conversation was shown
70 Baron Buriau and verified before
being transmitted b. Ambassador Pen
field. and when tn, State Department
received it p cory wss at once sent to
Or. Dumba at the summer embassy at
Lenox. Mass, for his information.
After reading this record DR.. Dumba
sent a message to the State Depart
ment asking safe conduct for himself
and his encourage. Acting Secretary
Polk conferred at an early hour this
morning with Colville Barclay, charge
d'araires at the British Embassy, and
WAS assured that DR.. Dumba, Nine.
Dumba. their numerous household and
their seventy trunks could cross the
Atlantic IN safety, so far as Great
Br,tain and France we're concerned.
DR.. Dumba's passports accordingly
have been forwarded to him, and the
incident Is now considered closed.
To Take a Long Rest
DR.. Dumba Is now free to return TO
his fatherland, where he hopes to
enjoy much needed rest from the in
tricate and perilous undertakings that
have marked the latter part Of his
stay here. He will so to his country
place near Vienna and pass Few
months in complete rusticatlon.
The Austrian government made no
direct answer TO the American note de-
handing Dr.. Dumba's recall, but Am
bassador Penheld was assured person
allv by Baron Burian, the Austrian
Foreign Minister, that the objection
able ambassador has been ordered
home. and that "the recall is, as
matter of course, final"
The Foreign Minister even went FUR
Their. and intimated that he had no
Alternative but 70 comply with the
American demand. as he recognized the
right of the United States to take sucn
action with respect 10 any ambassador
whose presence proved 10 be objection
able. therefore. the American demand
is complied with, the laws OF lnterna-
tional etiquette are fulfilled and sorely
tried patience has received satisiac-
ton.
Captain Won PaDen Discussed
U;+b the Dumba case at last out Of
the vav, the State Department IS ready
" take nm the case of Captain Won
Papen. the military attache OF the Ger
man Embassy, and decide the question
of his usefulness as a diplomatic rep
resen.ative Of his goternment here. A
careful examination OF all the papers
In the lot taken from Archibald re-
veals Captain Won Papen's activities IN
a decidedly unfavorable light.
His exclamation and that OF certain
Of his compatriots of what he meant
bv "idiotic Yankees" is not altogether
satisfactory to the State Department.
Then. too. il will be interesting to IN
ouire how far he went in explaining
10 Dr. Dumba the advlsabillty OF pro-
noting strikes in munitions factories.
Archibald, the messenger OF Dr.
Dumba and Captain Won Papen, mas
asked Acting Secretary Polk for an op,,
portunity to explain how he happened
10 be involved in the case, and Is eX-
pected at the State Department soon.
The rest of the papers which he car
ried arrived here to-day and are being
examined. Officials are curious as to
what is contained in one Of these,
which, unfortunately, is written IN a
secret code and may never be deci-
phered.