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working well. They will also join, and the widest support 
is assured me. I beg your Excellency to be so good as 
to inform me with reference to this letter by wireless tele- 
graphy, replying whether you agree. Dumba. 
The considaiation which "Doctor" Archibald received for 
his complacency in giving his friends Dumba and Bernstorff 
"this rare-and safe opportunity" is indicated by his receipt 
of April 24, 1915, to the German Embassy in Washington 
for ;fi,ooo for propaganda work. 
Further light upon "the enclosed aide memoire. . . in 
pursuance of his proposals to arrange for strikes in the 
Bethelem Schwab steel and munitions war factory," is gained 
by the following quotations from the enclosure mentioned 
by Dumba in his letter to Burian. The enclosure was an 
outline of a scheme for fomenting strikes, submitted to Dumba 
by William Warm, the Editor of Szabodsog {Freedom): — 
In ray opinion, we must start a very strong agitation on 
this question in the Freedom (Szabodsog), a leading organ, 
with respect to the Bethlehem works and the conditions 
" there. This can be done in two ways, and both must be 
utilised. In the first place, a regular daily section must 
be devoted to the conditions obtaining there, and a cam- 
paign must' be regularly conducted against those indescrib- 
ably degrading conditions. The Freedom has already done 
something similar in the recent past, when tlie strike move- 
ment began at Bridgeport. It must naturally take the 
form of strong, deliberate, decided, and courageous action. 
Secondly, the writer of these lines would begin a labour 
novel in that newspaper much on the lines of Upton 
Sinclair's celebrated story, and this might be published in 
other local Hungarian, Slovak, and German newspapers 
also. Here we arrive at the point that naturally we shall 
also require other newspapers. The American Magyar 
Nepszava (Word of the People) wiU undoubtedly be com- 
pelled willingly or unwilUngly to follow the movement 
initiated by the Freedom (Szabodsog), for it will be pleasing 
to the entire Hungarian element in America, and an absolute 
patriotic act to which that open journal (the Nepszava) 
could not adopt a hostile attitude. . . . 
In the interest of successful action at Bethlehem and the 
Middle West, besides the Szabodsog, the Nepszava, the new 
daily paper of Pittsburg, must be set in motion, and those 
of Bridgeport, Youngtown District, etc., also two Slovak 
papers. Under these circumstances, the first necessity is 
money. To Bethlehem must be sent as many reUable 
Hungarian and German workmen as I can lay my hands 
on, who will join the factories and begin their work in secret 
among tlieir fellow workmen. We must sepd an organiser, 
who in the interest? of the Union will begin the business 
in his own way. We must also send so-called "soap-box" 
orators who will know, and so start a useful agitation. 
We shall want money for popular meetings, and possibly 
for organising picnics. 
It is my opinion that for the special object of starting 
the Bethlehem business and for the Bethlehem and Western 
newspaper campaign, £3,000 to ;f4,ooo must be able to 
be disposed of, but it is not possible to reckon how much 
will ultimately be required. 
These documents should be read in the light of their date, 
August 20, 1915, when the United States was a neutral 
nation, still receiving the representatives of the "friendly" 
German and Austro-Hungarian Empires. 
Another document which Dumba entrusted to Archibald 
was his report to Burian on the then recent publication 
in the New York World of the papers taken from a satchel 
left in an elevated train by Dr. Heinrich Albert, the Financial 
Adviser to the German Embassy in America and the pay- 
master for a great deal of its work in plots and propaganda. 
This dispatch of Dumba's is worthy of reproduction. 
A map and a number of documents — typed, bilt un- 
finished copies or statements of petitioners — were stolen 
from the Financial Adviser of the G8rman Embassy here, 
obviously by the English secret service. These documents 
are now published in the current issue of the World, which 
ha5 gone over to the English Yingolager (Jingo camp) 
as a great sensation, with cheap advertisement. The 
paper makes the most violent accusations against the 
German Embassy, mainly against Count von Bernstorff, 
Military Attach^ Captain von Papen, and Geheimrat Albert, 
who are said to have conspired secretly against the safety 
of the United States, in that they have bought arms and 
munition factories, have concluded bogus contracts for 
delivery with France or Russia, have purchased large 
quantities of explosive materials, have incited strikes in 
the munition factories, have sought to corrupt the Press, 
and have spread far-reaching agitation for the effecting of 
an embargo in the different American circles. The other 
important New York papers second the World, although 
with less violence. 
Count von Bernstorff took the view that these calumnies 
were beneath reply, and by a happy inspiration, refused 
any explanation. He is in no way compromised. 
On the other hand, Geheimrat Albert published in the 
newspapers a very cleverly worded explanation, the tenor 
of which I venture to submit to Your Excellency in an 
enclosure. It is especially to the credit of the German 
Embassy that on July 15th last it informed the State 
Department officially that it found itself compelled to buy 
as many materials of war in this country as it possibly 
could, and to control their production, \vith the intention 
of preventing their being supplied through the enemy. 
These materials, it stated, were at any time at the disposal 
of the American Government at favourable prices, either 
as a whole or in parts ; and, of course, this could only 
further the readiness of the United States for taking the 
field in war. 
The torpedoing of the Arabic, in the event of its having 
been done without warning, or its having caused American 
passengers to lose their lives, will do more than any news- 
paper accusations, to prejudice Germany in the pubUc 
opinion of the United States. c. Dumba 
Imperial and Royal Ambassador. 
Archibald carried numerous other papers — for the Germans 
as well as for the Austrians. The most interesting of these 
was a report from Franz von Papen, Military? Attache of the 
German Embassy upon the same World exposuffe. The 
following are extracts from this dispatch : — 
MILITARY REPORT. 
" Sen.sational Revelations" of the New York World. 
On July 31st important papers were abstracted' from 
Herr Geheimrat Dr. Albert in the elevated railway, appar- 
ently by an individual in the employ of the English secret 
service. These papers were sold to the World, and formed 
the basis of the revelations (Enclosure i) which gave to 
the New York Press — friendly to the Allies — a welcome 
opportunity to make a fresh outburst against the Imperial 
Government and the Imperial representatives in this 
country. ... 
Apart from political results, the consequences of the 
publications for us show themselves in connection with 
business. 
The report of June 30th of the treasurer of the Bridgeport 
Projectile Company, which I forwarded to the Royal 
Ministry of War on July 13th, J. No. 1888, was among 
the stolen papers. 
The declaration, published in the papers, of the President 
of the Aetna Explosive Co. that he intended to throw up 
powder contracts with the Bridgeport Projectile Co. is, 
of course, only newspaper gossip, and was already much 
weakened yesterday through a fresh explanation. 
The only actual damage consists in 'that the Russian 
and English committee have at once broken off their 
negotiations with the Bridgeport Projectile Co , and that 
thus our plans to cut off, by the acceptance and non-delivery vf 
a shrapnel contract, other firms here from the possibility of 
beginning the furnishing of war material have come to nothing. 
Most of all have our efforts for the purchase of liquid 
chlorine been interfered with, since the tying up through 
middlemen of the Castner Chemical Company, which is 
friendly to England, appears now to be out of the question. 
Part of the significance of von Papen 's dispatch is his 
reference to the Bridgeport Projectile Company. Other 
documents in the possession of the United States Government 
demonstrate completely the ownership of this corporation 
by the Teutonic Allies. Hans Tauscher, the agent of Krupps 
and other German munition factories in this country, was in 
the habit of reporting direct to the War Ministry in Berlin 
as if he were its representative in this country — as indeed 
he was, though not ostensibly so. Among other papers in 
the hands of the Government is a letter from the President 
of the Bridgeport Projectile Company, informing him that the 
company is being reorganised and that hereafter Mr. Tauscher 
will hold as trustee only 60 per cent, of the capital stock. 
Naturally Tauscher was acting for his employers. 
Another document, of little importance, is a letter von 
Papen wrote to his wife and sent by Archibald. But two 
parts of it are interesting. After speaking again of the 
World exposure, he says : 
The answer of Albert I am sending you herewith, so you 
can see how we defend ourselves. The document we drew 
up together yesterday. 
But the bright spot for the Americans whose hospitality 
he was abusing lies in this : 
How splendid in the East ! I always say to these idiotic 
Yankees that they should shut their mouths, and, better 
still, be full of admiration for aU our heroism. My friends 
from the Army are in this respect quite different. 
Papen's "friends from the Army" have, with a good many 
of "these idiotic Yankees," organised an army and are looking 
for Captain Franz again, this time over the top in France, 
with the determination to settle the question with his 
government on the battlefield. 
(To be continued.) 
