INTRIGUE IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 8

INTRIGUE IN AMERICA.

STOPPING MUNITIONS WORK

GERMAN ADVERTISEMENTS. London, September 9.

Mr. Archibald, the American correspondent caught by the British carrying letters from the Austrian Ambassador to Vienna, asserts his perfect innocence in the incident. The letter sent through Archibald includes the following passage: "" Even if the strikes fail to come off, it is probable we shall extort, under pressure of the crisis, more favourable conditions for our poor, downtrodden fellow-countrymen. Those white slaves of Bethlehem work 12 hours a day for seven days a week. All weak persons succumb, or become consumptive."

The New York Tribune says that the German Ambassador, Count Bernstorff, has started a onmpaign among the munition workers similar to that of Count Dumba, the Austrian Ambassador. Count Bernstorff has advertised, offering to finance and find good positions in peaceful industries for any Germans abandoning munition work.

NEWSPAPERS INSISTENT. COUNT DUMBA MUST GO. .Times and Sydney Sun Services. New York, September 9. The newspapers in a chorus demand that Count Dumba, Austrian Ambassador, be handed his passport. The Herald asks that Count Bernstorff, German Ambassador, be also dismissed. The paper adds: " Is America to be regarded as a puerile, inferior, and pusillanimous country, and treated as a physical coward and mental incompetent among the nations?" A correspondent says: " Unless our demand for Count Dumba' dismissal be insistent, he will escape with a censure."