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Show AUSTRIA ASKED TO RECALL DMA ; ENVOY NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE TO UNITED STATES, SECRETARY SECRE-TARY LANSING SAYS. Effort to Cause Trouble in American Manufacturing Plants Followed by Quick Action Upon Part of President and Secretary. Washington. Ambassador Penfield, at Vienna, has been instructed to inform in-form the Austro-Hungarian government govern-ment that Dr. Constantin Dumba no longer is acceptable as an envoy to the United States and to ask for his recall. Secretary Lansing formally announced an-nounced the action Thursday night. It was the answer of the American government gov-ernment to Dr. Dumba's explanation of his intercepted letter to Vienna outlining plans for handicapping plants in this country making war supplies for the allies. Secretary Lansing has canceled the passports of James F. J. Archibald, the American correspondent upon whom British secret service men found communications from Dr. Constantin Con-stantin Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian' ambassador, to his foreign office on the subject of fomenting strikes in American munitions plants. Archibald now is at Rotterdam and American Minister Van Dyke has been instructed instruct-ed to issue an emergency passport to permit his return to , the United States, when the department of justice jus-tice probably will be called on to decide de-cide if he has violated any law of the United States in acting as a messenger messen-ger for one of the Kuropep.n belligerents. belliger-ents. News that Dr. Dumba's recall had been requested created a sensation in the capital. It had been known In official and diplomatic circles that President Wilson and Secretary Lansing Lans-ing regarded the conduct of the ambassador am-bassador as a grave breach of propriety, pro-priety, hut there had been a well defined de-fined impression that the only immediate imme-diate step would be the cancellation announced Thursday of the passport of Archibald, the American who carried car-ried the intercepted dispatches. . Wihile everywhere it was admitted that the situation created by the American note might prove a serious one in its effect upon the relations between the two governments, it was pointed out that the language of the communication indicated clearly a desire de-sire to have Dr. Dumba recalled without with-out making a diplomatic issue of his case. No mention was made of the order given the ambassador to proclaim pro-claim his government's decree to Aus-tro-Hungarians working in this country. coun-try. An ambassador is the personal representative of the head of his government gov-ernment near the ruler or executive of the country to which he is accredited, accred-ited, and a request for his recall does not necesisarily mean more than he is personally objectionable. |