GERMAN INTRIGUE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3186, 10 September 1917, Page 5

GERMAN INTRIGUE

MACHINATIONS IN ARGENTINA SWEDISH MINISTER'S DUPLICITY forwards messages relating TO SUBMARINES iho Ingh Commissioner reports:— nn Londori, September 8, 11.20 p.m. Ufflcial. —Tho Swedish Minister in clie Argentino has been convicted of duplicity In sending and receiving German, code messages relating to submarines. 1 (Itec. September 0, 11.5 p.m.) Washington, September S. Copies of the official dispatches sent to the Berlin Foreign Office by Count Luxburg, Gennau Charge d'Ali'aires at Buenos Aires, in. cypher through the bwedish_ Legation there as its own. communications havo been mado public by -UJ-. Lansing, Secretary ofState, without any comment as to how they i'cll into the United States Government's hands. Copies were also delivered to the Argentine Embassy and the Swedish Legation here. Besides revealing the means Germany used in Swcdon and her machinations in the Argontine. the dispatches show how the German Charge d'Aifaires, at tho time the Argentine was having a critical diplomatic controversy with Germany over tho submarining" of ships, was sending through the Swedish Legation information as to the sailings of certain vessels, wifli recommendations that they he sunk without leaving any trace, and other dispatcfies" informing; his Government how to regard Argentina's protests against tho 1 destruction of her shipping. Humours following tho publication of the documents that diplomatic relations with Sweden might be sovered caused a sensation.—Keute.-.

THE MESSAGES FORWARDED TO I GERMANY (Rec. September D, 11.20 p.m.) Washington, September 6. Tho text of Count Luxburg's messages has been published. On May 19 last lie cabled frop Buenos Aires that tho Government had released German and Austrian ships hitherto guarded, that there had been a great change of public feeling, and asked that tho steamers Oran and Guzo, thou Hearing Bordeaux, might be spared if possiblo, or sunk without trace. Cabling on July 3, tho Count said that ho had learned that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was a notorious ass and .an Anglophile, had declared at a secret session- of tho Sonato that Argentina would demand from Berlin a promise to sink no more Argentine ships. If the demand was not acceded to relations would be broken off. Ho recommended a refusal of tho demand, or, if necessary, the mediation of Spain. Cabling on July 9, he advised postponing the sending of a reply to the Argentine until further reports wero received, as a change of Ministry was probable. As regards tho Argentine steamers, ho recoinmondcd either compelling tlieui to turn back, sinking thorn without trace, or letting them through.—Reutor.