Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1915 — DUMBA ASKS RECALL ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE [ARTICLE]

DUMBA ASKS RECALL ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE

Asks Home Government to Allow Him to Make Personal Report—May Leave Very Soon. The Austria-Hungarian ambassador, Dr. Constantin Dumba, announced Tuesday that he had requested his foreign office to recall him on leave ’of absence in order that he might make a personal report on the situation in the United States which resulted in a request by the United States government for his recall. In authorizing the Associated Press to make the above announcement, Mr. Dumba expressed indignation that the text of his message to his government already had become public without his consent or knowledge. In view of “the situation,” he said he probably would not make public the statement of his position which he had in mind to give to the American press. He would, however, have something to say through the Austrian press when he reached Vienna. He declared he had communicated with his government in the only way open to him and was much embarrassed that his letter was known in this country before it reached the only person for whom it was intended.