New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-05
Ambassador Designate Here
Three Months, but Never
Was Recognized
Hopes To Be Envoy Yet
Diplomat Silent on Length OF
War, but Sure Germany
Can't Be Starved

Cou,. Adam Tarnowsk Won Tarnow'
Ambassador Designate 10 tho Onltcd
states from Austria. sailed from ho-
bolen Yesterday on the Holand-Amer-
lea liner Ryndam. his credentials stu
unopened. For three months ne has
been in this country, but he never was
officially recognized.
Arriving on February >. Count Tar
nowsk carried on the business OF the
embassy. but never was ambassador
After an absence Of many years he re-
turned 10 the United States, express
inc keen qualification at the opportu-
nifty TO revisit tho country. He de-
parted. voiciug tho hope he might be
the next representative Of his nation
here.
The ;rcouCruity attending his doml-
cilc in Washington followed him to the
boat. Whom Ambassador Won Bern
storf sailed his departure was the
visible symbol of a break with Ger
many. 4 crowd tnronged the pier.
The departing minister was the centre
Of interest.
When Count Tarnovski and his Of
fetal partv OF POS trooped through the
Lackawanna trainshed and station not
one Of the thousands Of commuters
turned his head for second glance.
No uniformed Gordon guarded his path.
Unobtrusivc Secret Service men were
in attendance. but their presence ap-
peared 20 be as unnecessary as II was
unsupported.
Party Stirs No Interest
All unheralded and unnoticed, the
ambassador who never was an amoas-
sador Wormed ms way through the
crowds. entered the pier and climbed
the gargp!ank.
The Ryndam Will stop at Bergen en-
route to Rotterdam TO permit the aus
trjans 10 disembark and proceed by
train and beat to Copenhagen, whence
they Will journey TO the austrian cap,
ital by train through denmark ana
Gcrmeny. Il is thought almost a
month VIII clapsc before the party
reaches Us destination.
Asked how long the war would last,
Your guess is as good as mile
But he added: zone thing | may say
reparlinc the economic conditions IN
Germany. and that is that If the Allies
are pNUcCtlng TO StarNe OeTmdnF OuI
thew viii not succeed. Germany has
sufficient food to outlast her enemies.
food enough 10 last 10 the end OF the
war. whether it takes one, two or
three years longer
Looks for a New Post
Regarding his plans Count Tarnow-
ski said he was at the call Of his coun-
try.
Il am a politician and not business
man. he explained. "and expect l snail
i'm some other diplomatic post"
Before his departure the count gave
20 Morris Cukor. an attache OF the Aus
trian Consulate in New York, state
ment TO be published i'm the Austrian
papcrs here. conveying 20 his country
men his farewell greetings and bidding
them abide by the laws Of the United
States.
Among the passengers in the oficial
PARTY we're Prince and Princess Alfred
-Ton Hohen-Lohe, counsel for the Aus
trian Embassy at Washington. The
princess formerly was Miss Mary Eliza
beth Britton. Of Washington. DR..
Friedrich Won Berd du Nernois, Alex
ander Won Nuber. Consul General at
New York; Dr. Karl Winter. Baron
and Baroness Won Nathan and Ad-
miral d. ". Won Hintze. former Ger
man Minister 20 China, also were with
\ Count Tarnowsk.