AMERICA AND THE AMBASSADOR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2564, 11 September 1915, Page 5

AMERICA AND THE AMBASSADOR

M, DUMBA'S CONDUCT j RECALL DEMANDED j . ; BrT«legrari>—Press Association—OoDyrig'tiV i ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) i London, September 9. j The New York newspapers in chorus ' ] demand that M. Dumba (the Austrian. 1 Ambassador) bo handed his passport. ; ; The "Herald" asks that Count Berns- , I torff (the German Ambassador) bo also dismissed, adding: "Is America to be ; regarded as a puerile, inferior, pusillanimous country, and treated _as a j physical coward and a mental incom- ; potent among the nations?" i A correspondent adds: Unless the j demand for M- Dumba's dismissal is j insistent, he will escape with censure." ; The German press is hinting that ' Germany must avaid a conflict with | America, in order to devote her whole attention to the Balkans."

BERNSTORFF'S WILES. j London, September 9. The New York "Tribune" says thai i Count Bernstorff's campaign among j ■the munition workers is similar to M. j Dumba's. He advertised offering to j finance and aid to good positions in ! peaceful industries Germans willing to abandon munition work. . 1 MR. ARCHIBALD'S STORY. ASSERTS HIS PERFECT INNOCENCE' .\j London, September 9. j Mr. J. F. J. Archibald, the war cor- 1 respondent, assorts his -perfect inno- j cenco with regard to the Dumba in- ! cident. Tho letter sent through. Mr. Archibald includes tho following pas- ' . sage:—"Even if strikes'-fail to come' , off, it is probable we shall estort, under pressure of the crisis, more favour- ■ able conditions for our poor downtrodden fellow countrymen. These whiteslaves at Bethlehem work twelve hours a day for seven days a week. All weak persons succumb or become consump-

[M, Dumba, it is' said, admitted tliat Mr. Archibald tore an American pass-; port while acting virtually as a spyior the Austrian Government. According to tho Associated Press correspondent the use of a passport to shield Mr. Archibald, who was carrying, besides M. Dumba's letter, messages from Count Bernstorff, the Gernian Ambassador, is regarded bv President AVilson snd Mr.' Lansing (United .States Secretary of State) as being as serious as the revelations regarding M. Dumba's letter.] M. DUMBA'S RECALL ASKED FOR. (Rec. September 10, 10 p.m. ) Washington, September 10. Router's correspondent states that the Government has requested Austria to recall licr Ambassador, owing to his 1 propaganda to inaugurate strikes in. the American ammunition factories.