New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-05
DUVIBA, SILENT,
TO SAIL TO-DAY
Forbidden to Talk, but
Would Like to Say
Farewell.
GLAD TO ESCAPE,
SECRETARY AYERS
Meets Won Papen and Boy.Ed at
Parting Dinner-Wife Re-
grets Leaving u. S.

CinnNl w liC NC
grets Leaving u. S.
~ would like TO express a farewell
message 10 the American people through
The Tribune, but ! have received e1-
plicit instructions not to talk under any
circumstances until ! have conferred
with my superiors. II may be that I
shall then send message TO America
and explain some things which cannot
comment upon now. | have been in this
country for two and one-half years, but
1t was left for me to discover some
new features Of American institutions
and customs during the last few weeks
of my stay. You may say for me that
! leave with the kindliest of feeling
for the generally big-hearted American
people and their wonderful country"
These were the last words uttered for
publication AT the st. Regis Hotel last
night by DR.. Constantin Theodor Dunn
ba, the recalled Austro- Hungarian Am
bassador, who sails for Europe to-day on
the Holland-America liner Nieuw Am
sterdam. The former Ambassador had
Just returned from a round Of farewell
visits, and was preparing 70 receive a
host OF callers who waited In the hotel
lobby to bid him and his wife goodby.
-
worn. II was evident that he was glad
Of the prospect Of quiet week Of re-
freshing sea travel. According 70
friends in the confidence Of the retir-
ing ambassador. DR.. Dumba feels that
he still enjoys the full confidence OF
the imperial Austro- Hungarian gov
eminent, and that he will not be
shelved as a result Of his patriotic
activities in this country.
Glad to Get Away.
"Ths ambassador looks forward with
keen pleasure to his return to the
fatherland. which he tried to serve 81
we'll" said Prince zu Hohenlohe-
Schillingsfuerst. first secretary Of the
Austro- Hungarian Embassy. 81 am
able to state that ne is glad to be able
to escape the torrent Of abuse which
has been heaped upon him from all
quarters since his actions were first
misinterpreted and misunderstood In
this country"
Nine. Dumba, the beautiful young
Hungarian wife of the retiring envoy,
spent the day making farewell calls
and shopping. Those close TO her say
that she keenly feels the sting of So
cial sights TO which she has been sub
iected recently as a result Of her hus-
bands unpopularity. She has made
many friends in this country and was
enc of the most prominent and popular
figures in the foreign diplomatic set in
Washington.
Asked last night to express her feel.
ings on the eve Of her departure from a
country where she had enjoyed such
social triumphs, she simply said, with q
sad look in her dark eyes:
"What can | say, except that I regret
to leave this country, which has grown
so dear to my heart? Ny place natu'
rally is by the side Of my husband.
may return some day, who knows"
Has Received Safe Conduct.
Prince zu Observation-Disclosures
said last night that DR.. Dumba was
sailing under full safe conduct, and
that he did not anticipate any molesta.
tons during his voyage, which will take
him, first, 10 Falmouth. then TO Rotter.
dam, thence to Berlin on his way tc
Vienna, where he expects to be on Octo'
be- %
DR.. Dumba was an early caller at the
Ritz Carlton Hotel yesterday morning
where he conferred for nearly an houi
with Count Won Bernstorff, the German
Ambassador; DR.. Haniei Won Haimhau'
sen. the first secretary of the German
Embassy, and Prince Won Hatzfeldt-
Trachenberg, the counsellor Of the Ger
many Embassy.
Captain Franz Won Papen, German
military attache and coiner cf the
phrase "idiotic Yankees" was closeted
with Or. and Madame Dumba for half
an hour yesterday afternoon. He
seemed nervous and depressed when he
left and when questioned said that he
had no right 10 discuss an incident
which was purely personal.
Captain Won Papen was highly in
dignant when asked If he intended 10
accompany DR.. Dumba on his trip TO
the fatherland.
81 will not discuss this thing" he
fairly shouted. Everything that has
been printed about me has been either
grossly perverted or fabricated out of
whole cloth. IL is incomprehensible
for me 20 understand how q great peo-
ple like this can be made to believe
that q mans private spondence TO
his wife can be made the basis OF
diplomatic charges against him, when
he has expressed nothing but the most
commonplace of opinions in personal
letter.
Doesn't Expect To BE Recalled.
As he was about 20 leave the st.
Regis Hotel, Captain Won Papen was
asked if he expected TO be recalled. lie
wheeled about, faced his inferno gator
and said with blazing eyes;
mo, ! do not"
Then he ran down the stairs, jumped
into a waiting automobile ana was