The effort of Austria to save Dr. Dumba's face by
an evasion of the demand for recall has failed. The American Government have refused to grant Dr. Dumba's request for a safe-conduct so that he might be able to reach Vienna "on leave," and Mr. Penfield, the American Ambassador Vienna, has been informed by the Austrian Government that the wishes of the United States will be complied with. President Wilson's firmness has been very well received in America, where the general opinion is in favour of ending once for all the illicit activities of German official agents. As the Philadelphia Ledger puts it, their sole purpose has been "to help one group of belligerents at the expense, not only of the other group, but of a neutral nation, which endeavoured to deal impartially with both. This is an unprecedented and intolerable situation. The Administeation cannot too quickly exercise every power it possesses to make an end of it." Meanwhile Captain von Papen, the German Military Attaché, who has been so gravely compromised by the disclosures of the Archibald letters, is taking a holiday in the Yellowstone Park, and is credited with the intention of moving on to Mexico.
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