The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-08
Ambassador of Austria Hun
 gary Tells Secretary of State His Position in Scheme For lTieing Up
 Munitions Plants Through Fomenting Labor Trouble.
'Plan Originated in Vienna and He Was Carrying Out Orders, Is His Explana- tion Government Here Defers Action Until After Next Cabinet Meeting.

Defers Action Until After
 Next Cabinet Meeting. Washington. Sept. S.-Action has fheen deferred sby the Government in lDumba. Ambassador of Austria-Hun- leary pending consideration by Pres 31dent Wilson of an explanation sub ixnftted personally by Dr. Dumba. tosI ScEetary Lansing yesterday, with ref ference to the charge that Dr. Dumba lhad planned .-tos discrganize and hold. fun for< nontf1ss f.if not ieptirely pre- ITe1t 4fK1ox Manufacture of munitions F1n BsEhlehern and the Middle West'''l lThesq sqnotzt1on-is from the letter which IDrss spuEnba,wrot Count Buriazl, the izAnstnoA Hungarian s Minister for For-l seign Affairss andS which was taken from James F-s J. Archibald, an lAanerfra114xvriter,s when hes arrived at |Balmoutts England, in Dutch lHhearnship ton hIsrway to Germany land Austria I Dr. I3uKnk,<s syrl1o arrived here yes- tterdaxs a71ernoon from Lenoxs Mass, |tozd Sacrdkaxy Iansfn that in warn |1ng subjects of sAustrza and Hungaryl : to quit work in munitions factor1esl The was acting under orders from his IC0vernnnegzk- While the Adminisra- ifaDn d0es4s not look leuientIy on Dr. }Dumbaess offense. the situationsis com-lI Ip11catedS by a prospect that, if Dr-I DuInbas is dismissed by the United States, the Government4 Of Austria Hungary will hand his passports to Frederic lC Penheld, the AmericanSI Manifestation at Vienna al
 The v1sits of Dr. Duupba to Wash ifngt0ns Wask k3er the express purposen of making d s fersona1 explanation to lSecretary Lansing cDHcerhfng the sfafeulents contained in the letter taken from ArchibaId by the British authorities at Falmouth, and which the Ambassador of the duel monarchy admitted writing
 Dr. Dumba was with the Secretary of State about half an hour Just prior to the interview SecFetary Lan- sing lad a conference with Pres1dents wilson, aE which Secretary adeAdooH was presenf When herlefE tho State. DepartThent the Ambassador declined to make any statment for publica- tfon Secretary Lansing also refused to discuss wIat.wa said at the inter- view.
 After leaving tho State Department pr. Dunaba- sBafkedcto efizez zAEetropoIi-s tan CRibs but dzeEa oesaHt eF St4Fe sbuild- ing. Instead he walked around the block and went again to the State Department, where he had a conver- satfon with William Phillips, the Third Assistant Secretary of State. Thence he went to the -Austro Hun saTian Embassy
 What Dunlba Told Lansing.
 Dr. Dunba told Secretary Lansing that in proposing to Count Burfan a plan ito disorganize and hold up Tor anoufhsss the manufacture of mun1- ton of war in this country he was merely carrying out certain instruc- lions from his government. These t1,- structfons- it was explained, were to notify subjects of Austria and Hun fhoxy yrould be guilty of treason if they worked in plants engaged in srnanu- facturing arms and ammunition for the enemies of Austria-Hungary, and that if they returned to their own country they would be liable to i'm pr1sonxnent for from ten to twenty years or even death by hanging
 The plan of Dr. DuTnba disclosed in the captured letter. it was asserted. was only to persuade subjects of the dual monarchy that they should quit working d1la munitions factories In this way, 1t was admitted, he hoped to keep the factories from furnishing greab quantities ofsmunitions to Great Britain, France and Russia
 It Is not known how the Austro- Hungarian, ambassador made this ex- planation square with the statement fin his letter that the plan was ito dfsorgannize and hold up for months, if not entirely prevent, the nlanufac- sure of nuIftions fR Bethlehem and the Middle West, kWff4ch in the opinion Of the German military attache is of great importance and amply out weighs the expenditure of the money 1nvo1ved.''
 The disclosure of the Austrian en- voy to Secretary Lansing that he was carrying out instructions from his government in planning to disor- ganize the munitions business in the United States has given an aspect to the case which has furnished food for careful thought on the part of the administration. It is pointed out that any action against Dr. Dumba might be regarded as action against the govern1n eHt of aAlFstria1TEunsaTy and would be likely to result in a serious difference between the two govern nents. The statement comes from a weIl-inforned source that a demand for the recall of pr. Duba would probably result in the dismissal of mbassador PenfieId from Vienna. diplomatic relations between Austria Hunga4y sAhd the United States
 AnHassaIor Appeared zT&T tA4sbed.
 Winch Dr. Dupaba- .1eftathes office of Secretary Lansing he appeared per turbed. But this state of feeling could not have been due to learning from Secretary Lansing that it had been determined that his usefulness to the government of the United States had ended. The secretaTy ofsstate and the arnbagsa SF >gs ast,ga &vitfal aassslsfances from tie former that rf5 aezasaozf ha q been reached. and that he would lay the anbassador's explanation before President Wilson Afor decision.
 It was said that cabinet meet Ing might be held on Friday to de