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Show DUMBO LETTER IS CONSIDERED I IN WASHINGTON Austro-Hungarian Embassador Embas-sador Said to Have "Set Up a Man of Straw" in Order to Knock It Down. WASHINGTON, .Sept. 19.-Hieh officiate offi-ciate Indicated tuniglit that no further Htepn were contemplated against 1 r. '"onstanllne Theodor Immhn, the Auntro-Huiigai'ian Auntro-Huiigai'ian embassador, on account of hi- letter to Bacratary lousing criticising the ireatment accorded hfin by the American government in i onnecllon with the re-uuet re-uuet for hla recall. It was stated the possibility uf haitenlDf the diplomat's departure de-parture from the country by handing him his passports had not been considered. Of. Dumbo's letter wrr received at the state department yesterday and was the subject of a conference between President Presi-dent Wilson and Acting Secretary Polk. No announcement was made, and at thai time officials had no Idea the embassador embassa-dor Intended to make the communication public, as he did last night In New York. The official view, as authoritatively explained ex-plained today, that part of Dr. Dumha's letter, in which he sought to show he had not bean guilty of improper conduct warranting a request for his recall. is that the embassador only partially stated t lie case, and "set up a man of straw to knock It dOWn." Point Not at Issue. The letter defended at length the right nf the embassador to inform national? of his country that thev were violating .A'lstro-1 lungariau laws in working in plants turning out munitions of war for the allies. It was pointed out by officials offi-cials that this point was not In Issue, but that the reason for the Washington roi ernment'9 action wa& the following statement In the Intercepted letter to his foreign minister: I am under the Impression that we could, If not entirely prevent the production pro-duction of war materials in Bethlehem Bethle-hem and the middle west, at any rate strongly disorganize it and hold it up for months, which, according to the statement of the German military mil-itary attache, is of great importance, atid which amply outweighs the relatively rela-tively small sacrifice of money. No Longer Recognized. Htate department officials have not been informed or Dr. Dumbas plans for leaving the T'niteri States, although It is known he has asked his government to order him home to make a personal report on his case. So long as he quits the country and does not appear again us an envpy in Washington, it la understood, under-stood, the Inltert States government will not he disposed to question the manner of his !OlnjC or the nature of his orders Regarding tho embassador's charge In his letter to Mr, Lansing that he had not been allowed to communicate freelv wlth his government, and that a message mes-sage ftVlng his report on his activities had heen held up Im censors In this eoun-iry. eoun-iry. it was said at the state and navy departments tonight thai nothing was known of such a message. Dr. Dumba's declaration that a brief confidential message sent by him to Vienna Vi-enna by wireless asking that he be recalled re-called on leave, was allowed to become public, is now being investigated. This message was published by a New York newspaper and It was said today that efforts ef-forts were being made to discover whether wheth-er the law prohibiting telegraph operators opera-tors from divulging messages has been violated. With his letter Dr. Dumba inclosed a copy of memoranda drawn up by a Hungarian Hun-garian editor in this count it and furnished fur-nished to the embassador by Alexander Nuher von Pereked, the Austro-Hungarian consul general in New York, relating relat-ing to "disturbances,-- which It was proposed pro-posed to cause in munitions plants at Bethlehem, Pa., and in the middle west. This memorandum was one of the documents docu-ments taken from James F. J. Archibald, the American newspaper correspondent, In London. Acting Secretary Polk said tonight that tills memorandum would not be made public for the present, because Dr. Dumba Dum-ba said the original was in Hungarian and that he could not vouch for the correctness correct-ness or the translation. Copies of all the documents taken from Archibald are expected ex-pected to arrive at the state department depart-ment this week. Archibald himself is expected in Washington Wash-ington this week to explain to the state department his action in carrying nies-sages nies-sages for a foreign government, while traveling under an American passport. |