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ARGENTINE.

DUPLICITY OF SWEDISH MINISTER. CODE MESSAGES TO SUBMARINES. Wellington, Last Night. The High Commissioner reports from London under date September (i, 11.20 p.m.:—Official: The Swedish Minister in the Argentine ba=; been convicted of duplicity (complicity ?) in sending and receiving German code mesages relating to submarines. WHAT THE DISPATCHES REVEAL. VESSELS TO BE SUBMARINED. NO TRACE TO BE LEFT, RELATIONS WITH SWEDEN JEOPARDISED. 'Renter Service. Received Sept. 9, 11.50 p.m. Washington, Sept. 9. Copies of the official despatches were sent to the Berlin Foreign Ollice by Count Luxburg, German Charge d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres, in cypher, through the Swedish Legation there, as it 3 own communications were made public by Mr. Lansing without any comment as to how they fell into the United States Government's hands. Copies were also delivered to the Argentine Embassy and the Swedish Legation here. 'Besides revealing tho twins which Germany used with Sweden, and her machinations, the Argentine despatches show how the German Charge d'Affaires, at the time the Argentine was having a critical diplomatic controversy with Germany over submarining her ships, was sending through the Swedish Legation information as to the sailings of certain vessels, with recommendations that they should be sunk without leaving any trace, and other dispatches informing his Government how to regard the Argentine's protest against the destruction of her shipping. Rumors, following the publication of the documents, that diplomatic relations with Sweden might be severed, have caused a sensation. < TEXT OF MESSAGES. EXPOSURE OF GERMAN TRICKERY. Reuter Service. Received Sept. !), 11.53 p.m. Washington, Sept. 9. The text of Count Luxburg's messages, published on May If) last, and cabled from Buenos Aires, was: This Government has released the German a.nd Austrian ships, which have hitherto been guarded, there having been a great change in public feeling, and asking that the steamers Oran and Guzo, then nearing Bordeauy, may be spared if possible, or sunk without a trace. Cabling on July .1. he said: Have learnad that 'he Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is a notorious ass and an Anglophile, has declared a secret session of the Senate, that the Argentine may demand from Berlin a promise to sink no more Argentine ship?. If the demand is not an eded to relations will be broken off. He recommends Tefusal, or, if necessary, the mediation of Spain. Cabling on July i), Count Luxburg advises postponing the reply to the Argentine until he further reports, as a change of Ministry was probable. As regards the Argentine steamers, he recommends either compelling them to turn back, sinking them without a trace, or letting them through.

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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1917, Page 5

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ARGENTINE. Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1917, Page 5

ARGENTINE. Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1917, Page 5

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