The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-29
Austrian Ambassador Criticized Lam
sings Reply as "Certainly Very
Weak" in Letter Which Archibald
Carried-TeHt is Made Public by
IL,
the British in London.


one letter says that Mr.. Archibald SIS
proceeding to Germany to collect ma
teTial for lectures in the United States
in the interest of the German cause.
In letter addressed to Archibald
Count Won Bernstorff says:
81 have heard with pleasure tha.
you wish once more to return = Ger
many and Austria after having pro-
NOTED our interests out here in such
a jealous and successful manner
Capt. Won Papen, the military at
tachee of the German embassy in
Washington, in a letter to Berlin
friend said: 'tMr. Archibald is going
Ito Germany and Austria to collect
new impressions from the point Of
view of the strictly impartial jour
nalist he has always BEEN
The documents included a letter
from DR.. Constantin Theodor Dumba,
the Austro-Hungarian ambassador at
Washington to Baron Won Burian,
the Austro-Hungarian minister of
foreign affairs, which criticised Sec
retary of State Lansing's reply to
Baron Won Burian's protest against
the large deliveries of weapons to
the Allies. The letter declares the
legal arguments of Mr.. Lansing are
certainly very weak but adds that
to return to the question is useless
having regard to the somewhat self
willed temperament Of the presi-
dent"
The letter of Dr.. Dumba, dated
August 20, says:
"The reply of Secretary of State
Lansing to the note Of the 18th of
June, in which your Excellency pro-
tested against the enormous dellv-
cries of weapons and munitions to
the Allies from the United States, was
published here-I do not know
whether with the agreement of the
Austrian government-on the 1e:h
ultimo
LAS was to be expected, the refusal
was quite categorical The legal ar
bume1ts are certainly very weak, for
the references to articles supplied by
Germany and Austria during the
Boer war are not to the point and
are misleading, for at that time Ger
many claimed the right to send food
stuffs to the Beers via the neutral
port of Lorenzo Marques, and, If
am not mistaken, carried the point
after the war against England.
''The true ground for the discour'
aging attitude Of the president lies,
as his confidant, Mr.. House, already
informed me in January, and now has
repeated, IN the fact that the authori-
ties in a serious crisis would have to
rely on neutral foreign countries for
all their war materials. At no price
and in no case will Mr.. Wilson allow
this source to dry up.
" For this reason am of the opin-
ion that a return to the question,
whether officially, by replies of your
EXcelleucy, or by a semi-oficial con.
versation between myself and the
secretary of state, will not only be
useless, but even, having regard to
the seIf-willed temperament of the
president, harmful.
''In this matter I agree entirely
with the view expressed by Consul
General Schwegel in report attach
ed. The president has broken all
the bridges behind him and made his
point of view so definite that it is
impossible for him to retreat from
this position.
las last autumn, he can always,
through his personal influence, either
force the House of Representative to
take his point of view against their
better judgment, or, on the other
hand, in the Senate can overthrow the
resolution already voted in favor OF
prohibiting the export of guns and
ammunitionS.
''In the circumstances, any attempt
to force the individual states to vote
parallel resolutions through their
legislative bodies offer no advantages
apart from the internal difficulties
which the execution of this plan pre-
sentS.
1.-THE proposal to forbid passenger
ships to carry munitions stands on
different footing, however. Mr.. Bryan
and his Democratic supporters would
stand for this prohibition, and / be-
lieve the president would not show
bimseIf so intranSigeanG with regard
to this action.
"As for the note to protest against
British interference with shipping,
which has so often been noticed and
as often postponed, j learn that the
issue is delayed in consequence of
the imminent declaration of cotton
as contraband. The feeling which OBJ
tains amongst the great American I'M
porters was accurately represented in
Mr.. Meagher's (Meeker?) speech.
Meagher is one of the principal eX-
porters of the United States. for he
is a partner in the Chicago company
of Armour and Co., who, with the
firm of Swift. control the meat mar
ket of the whole Western Hemi-
sphere.
"Mr. Meagher. whom I recently
met on a yacht, and whose acquaint-
ance had already made in Chicago.
absolutely regards England acts as
arbitrary. No fewer than thirty-one
ships with meat and bacon, ship
ments of his firm for Sweden. valued
at nineteen million dollars. have been
detained in English ports for months
under suspicion that they ultimately
are intended for Germany.
The negotiations are being so long
drawn out. because Mr.. Meagher and
his companions will not accept lame
compromise. but insist on full COM
pensation or the release OF the con-
signments. in which the bacon may
be still sound.
My informant further gave me to
understand he has not yet played his
last trump. namely. a refusal to im-
port meat to England under the Cir
climStanCeS. He--that is to say the
above named slaughterins houses
control the Argentine market. At
the present moment they are paralyZ-
cd here also By the action OF the
British admiralty. for the latter has
commandeered most OF the English
freight ships intended TO transport
meat from ARGENTINE