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Show PRESIDENT MM ORDER VON PAPFN TO DEPART Deliberates Whether He Should Hand Military Attache His Passports for Calling Americans "Idiotic Yankees"; At All Events Recall Will Be Demanded. CONSUL GENERAL GRAVE OFFENDER Austrian Representative Who Framed Plan for Strikes in Munitions Plants and the Editor Who Prepared Strike Memorandum Face U. S. Government's Ire. By I niei national News Service. WA SITXN'GTON. Sept. 22. It was rumored here tonight that Embassador Em-bassador -von Bernstorff would forestall fore-stall any action of the United States government by ordering Captain Cap-tain von Papen to return to Germany Ger-many on a "perpetual leave of absence. ' By International News Service- WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. As the re suit of the receipt aud publication of the correspondence taken from James P. J. Archibald by British seeref service agents, the preponderance of opinion in official circles tonight is that this government gov-ernment will act decisively against the following persons: CAPTAIN FRANZ VON PAPEN. military mil-itary attache of the German embassy, who has referred to the American people peo-ple as "idiotic Yankees." ALEXANDER VON NUBER, Austrian consul general at New York, who submitted sub-mitted to Dr. Constantin Theodor Dumba, the Austrian embassador, the plan for fomenting strikes in munition muni-tion plants in the United StateB. WELL! AM WARM, editor of the Hungarian Hun-garian paper Szabadsag, who prepared the memorandum outlining the plan for interference with the munitions plants which was approved by Embassador Embas-sador Dumba and was the basis for the request for his recall. It can be stated on good authority that this government cither will ask for the recall of Captain von Papen or hand him his passports; that it will cancel the exequatur of Consul General von Nuber. and will refer the case of the editor of the Szabadsag to the proper department for such legal actiou as may fit his offense. President Criticised. The case of Embassador Dumba himself him-self again became one of serious consideration con-sideration for the government, principally principal-ly because the correspondence revealed he had made comment upon the president, presi-dent, referring to his 'self-willed temperament.'1 tem-perament.'1 and had discussed the president's presi-dent's relations to congress. n this connection the important discovery dis-covery was made today that Embassador Embassa-dor Dumba had asked the state department depart-ment to arraugc for his safe passage home and that his request has been held up bv the administration for reasons not fully revealed. Officials say, however, that this government gov-ernment will not interest itself to get a safe conduct for Embassador Dumba until un-til Austria has made a direct aud categorical cate-gorical response to the request for his recall. Ordinarily, when a request for safe conduct is made, the state department depart-ment takes up the matter immediately a? a matter of courtesy. When Mme. Dumba requested safe conduct the state i (Continued ou Page Three.) l statement on his recent conference with I Secretary of itate Lansing. Thi was done as a courtesy and ewpecjai mark I of confidence in the embassador, as lkis ! tfovermnent had no means ol knowing ! toe rontcntfl of tbe embassador's mes i aj;p. It was sent by coble and it is believed that this could only be possible by the consent of the allies. Officials made the significant comment today on Embassador Bernstorff 's message that , it was undoubtedly the cause of the not able fihaiarfi 01 ,-'erm3n goenment a attitude toward the United States. It hoe been noted since the message waa sent that not only has the assurance Sfiven personally to" the state department bv the enibaBsalor been indorsed by his government, but that the government itself has given larger and even more effective assurances that the submarine warfare will be conducted strictly according ac-cording to the requirements of international interna-tional law. Acting Secretary of State Polk said todav that the department had been ad-riseo ad-riseo thnt Embassador Page was sending send-ing to the department a fragment of the metal alleged to have been found on the deck of the Hesperian, which its officers of-ficers believed to be a part ot" a torpedo. tor-pedo. The fragment will be examined here by experts of the navy department- PRESIDENT MAY HAND PASSPORTS ID ENVOY (Contlnr.ed from Pae One. department communicated promptly with the British and Prem h governments. The whole attitude of Kovernment of ficials is one of especially deep recent -ment against Captain vou Papen for bis reference to the American poople Al 1 ' idioti.- Yankees. ' 1 Officials of the state department who are handling thin ease said today that the offense is so pjbdUB that almost anyone could form Sorreel judgment as. to the final disposition dis-position of his -ase. Some officials went sn far as to intimate that the proper Mara would be to hand I aptain von Papen bis passports instead of going through the 'nurteoua formality of ak ing for his recall. A case somewhat similar to that ot (aptain von Papen occurred in Tn February of that year there was published in a newspaper a private let ter which Senor Pupuy De Tiome. Spanish Span-ish minister at Washington, had written writ-ten to Senor Canalejas, a Spanish journalist jour-nalist in Cuba. The letter was abstract ed' from the mails in Havana by a Cuban Cu-ban sympathizer. It contained, among other thing, certain comments upon the annual message of President McKinley, whom it described as "weak and a bidder for admiration of the crowd, besides be-sides being a weuld-be politician who tries to leave a door open behind himself him-self while keeping on good terms with the jingnps of his party," and it inti mated that it would be advantageous for Spain to take up. "even if only for effect, " the question of commercial relations. re-lations. Another Von Papen Letter. The American minister at Madrid was instructed to ask for his recall. Before Be-fore the master could be laid before the Spanish government. Senor Dupuy De Lome offered his resignation. Tt was accepted. The Spanish government then disclaimed any participation in his sentiments. sen-timents. The state department today gave out s new letter bv Captain von Papen. It was written W him at New York, August Au-gust 20, to the royal ministry of war at Berlin. Captain von Papen advised bis government that the Dutch and Norwegian Nor-wegian govern in en ts were buying war material. Tie desired to know from the rov.al ministrv whether there would be anv objection tn (a sale of war material ma-terial bv us to the countries mentioned in the event of the governments or their representatives here guaranteeing that no further sale of the (roods sha'1 take rdace. " Cant air von Papen indicated that he could "unload upon the Norwegian Nor-wegian government a large portion of the Lehieh Coke comoany toluol, which is Iving here useless in storage.'' The disposition of the state department depart-ment toni?ht is to settle as soon as possible pos-sible the Dumba and Von Papen incidents. inci-dents. Officials express the hone that the Austrian foreign office will in a verv short time comply with the request of the United States government for the recall of Dr. Dumb", so there mnv be no delav in allowing Dr. Dumba safe voyage voy-age home. 1 f Austria, eontrnrv to all precedent, should fake issue wifi the United State? and denv the Justice of the reca'l of Dr. Dumba. this country would then have Ihe alternative of handing him his pa"snorts. s tn the cH.se of ArffhibaM, the depart de-part men t of justice and the state department de-partment have npnarent.lv suspended hi dement until after his exnected conference con-ference with A citing Seeretarv ftf State Polk. Mr. Polk says, t he t no time has beer arranged for A n hibald 's call at the department. ft was disclosed todav at the state fie artment that Count von Bernstotff. the derm an embassador, had been permitted to send in the secret German code n |