UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1915, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR. PAPERS DEMAND HIS RECALL. Times and, Sydney Sun Services. London, Sept. 0. In New York the newspapers in chorus demand that M. Dumba be haiided his passports. The Herald asks that Count Bernstorff be also diamissed, adding: "Is America to lie regarded as a puerile, inferior and pusillanimous country, to be treated as a physical coward who is mentally incompetent among the nations V The Times' correspondent adds that unless the demand for Dumjba's dismissal is insistent he will escape with a censure. Archibald, the correspondent who carried letters for the Austrian Ambassador, asserts his perfect innocence in the Dumba incident. The letter sent through Archibald includes the following passage: "Even if the strikes fail to come off it ia probable we shall extort, under pressure of .the crisis, more favorable conditions for our poor, down-trodden fellowcountrymen. These white slaves at Bethlehem work twelve hour* a day, seveii days a week, AU weak persons succumb and become consumptive" RECALL DEMANDED. OWING TO STRIKES 'PROPAGANDA. Received Sept. 10, 10 p.m. Washington, Sept. 10. Reuter states that the Government have requested Austria to recall her ambassador, owing to his propaganda to inaugurate strikes in American ammunition factories. BRIBES TO MUNITION WORKERS. New York, Sept. 'J. The Tribune says that Count Bornstorff's campaign among the munition workers is similar tu M. Dumba's. lie 'advertised offering financial aid and good positions in peaceful industries to Germans abandoning munition work.