Count Bernstorff has refused to comment on these dis- closures,
but his secretary has admitted that Captain von Papen gave Mr. Archibald a copy of his letter to the Secretary of State. Dr. Dumba, however, frankly takes up the position of reus oonfliene. Before proceeding to Washington to offer his official explanation to Mr. Lansing, he admitted that secret and valuable papers had been entrusted to Mr. Archibald. He also defended as perfectly proper the methods he had taken to foment strikes among Austrian workmen in the States. He declared that the workmen were held in a condition nothing more nor less than slavery in the great steel plants of in Pennsylvania, and owned that he had subsidized many newspapers published in Czech and other Slav languages to bring- home to them the felonious nature of their employ- ment. It was to secure funds to provide them with other employment if they walked out that he had written to Baron Burian. Unofficial reports of his interview with Mr. Lansing indicate that it has neither convinced the Secretary of State nor pacified public opinion. Dr. Dumba's meteoric career is sketched in Wednesday's Times. It is enough to say that he graduated in the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade, the home of forgery and intrigue.
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