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Show DUMBA ORDERED GOVERNMENT WILL PROVIDE SAFE CONDUCT FOR RECALLED AUSTRIAN DIPLOMAT. Austrian Foreign Office Advised That Leave of Absence Would Not Answer, An-swer, and That Erring Official Must be Recalled. Washington. Dr. Constantin T. Dumba, Austrian ambassador to t;ie United States, has been formally recalled re-called by his government and the state, department is arranging with the British and French embassies here for his safe conduct on a steamer sailing from New York on October 5. State department officials explained that when the original note asking for a recall was presented by Ambassador Penfield, the Austrian foreign office contemplated recalling Dr. Dumba "on leave of absence." Dr. Dumba himself received word to that effect and asked for safe conduct. Ambassador Penfield, however, was instructed to make clear informally to the Austrian foreign office that Dr. Dumba's official relations with this government must be severed and that "leave of absence" would not he satisfactory. satis-factory. Baron Burian, the Austrian foreign minister, then sent instructions to Ambassador Dumba to return to Vienna and at the same time told Mr. Penfield "the recall Is as a matter of course" final. |