The recent revelations of the New York World—briefly aummarized in
our issue of August 21st—have been confirmed in the most remarkable way by the discovery of an Austro- German plot to hamper the United States munition workers, Mr. James F. J. Archibald, a well-known pro-German American war correspondent, was recently detained in an English port, and his papers seized. These included a letter from Dr. Dumba, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, to Baron Burial.). at Vienna, describing the means by which be proposed to disorganize and hold up for months the manufacture of munitions in the Middle West. The complicity of Captain von Papen, the German Military Attache, in this plot is also established in the documents seized. Dr. Dumba's letter was dated August 20th. Two days earlier Count Bernstorff had addressed a long letter to Mr. Lansing denouncing the New York World's disclosures as romantic inventions, and a copy of this letter was found in Mr. Archibald's despatch-box.
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