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Show GERMAN PAPERS SEEK TO EXCUSE COUNT LUXBURG AMSTERDAM, Sept. 15. The three cablegrams sent by Count Luxburg, German Ger-man minister to Argentina, to the German Ger-man foreign office through the Swedish legation have finally been permitted to be published iu the German press. The Koelniseh Zeitung says that it is easy to understand that the publication publica-tion of these dispatches in Argentina has made an unpleasant impression and that President Wilson has so far proV ably been successful with his maneuver, maneu-ver, but adds that they can only be rightly judged if it is not forgotten' that they were secret messages in code and if the dispatches of entente diplomacy could be read still more drastic expressions expres-sions would be encountered. Regarding the phrase in one of Count Luxburg 's dispatches about sinking Bteamships without leaving a trace, the paper lame-lv lame-lv argues that the expression does not mean sinking a ship with all hands, but so sinking her that military mishaps might be avoided, as for example" concealing con-cealing the fact from other ships that she was sunk by a submarine and not a mine. ' It is self evident," says the Koelniseh Koel-niseh Zeitung, "that the German government gov-ernment cannot be held responsible for the opinions of any one of its ministers. Ir. on the other hand, the entente press attempts, on the strength of the contents of these dispatches, to accuse German politics of duplicity, or the German navy of atrocities, such conclusions must impress unbiased minds as wilful exagi geration. "We are also confident that the Argentine Ar-gentine government will not participate partici-pate and we are equally convinced that the advice of Count Luxburg and his unconventional characterization of the ministers of the country to which he was accredited will meet with the decided de-cided disapproval of our government." "The grave disappointments which our foreign diplomacy has occasioned us in the course of this war, are measurably measur-ably surpassed by this newest sensation, sensa-tion, " says Vorwaerts. "No word of rebuke or condemnation is strong enough for the man who in a responsible respon-sible position forwards such irresponsible irresponsi-ble dispatches to his government." |