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Show 3on Lowen, Minister to Argentina, Will Not Be Recalled, Declares Official; Did Not Know Contents of the Messages Sent to Ger-many. Ger-many. STATEMENT IS ISSUED TO PUBLIC r Foreign Office Explains Acts of Government; Says Contents Must Be v Confirmed First and an Explanation Later Sought From Ger- . many. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 11. Baron Lowen, the Swedish minister to Argentina, Argen-tina, will not be recalled, according to tjn. statement made to the presa tonight tv.-Admiral Liniman, minister of foreign The foreign minister told the newspaper news-paper men that Baron Lowen was not blamable for the tenor of the messages which passed through the Swedish lega- tion, Bent by the German charge to the Berlin foreign office, and, as he had acted in good faith and did not know the contents of the dispatches, he would not be recalled. Public Interested. rThe public showed great Interest In the 4- 'statement of the foreign office regard- Inff the Swedish -Argentine revelations. During the day no officials of the foreign for-eign office were available for expressions of opinion on the situation. The cabinet was in session from 2 o'clock in the af- r ternoon until 5 o'clock, after which the j foreign offico- communication was made public. It is the general impression even among the strongly opposed political parties par-ties that Sweden acted in good faith in the matter of the German telegram, but r public opinion nevertheless is stirred by the fact that code telegrams of German origin were permitted to be forwarded without giving the Swedish officials the key to the code. Tho incident is expected to place t he la to cabinet in an unfavorable light and also to hav a groat bearing on the genera! gen-era! elections now in progress. In these elections the Conservatives already have lost seven seats and the Socialists and Ijlbernls are gaining steadily. Foreign Minister landman tonight told the editors of the newspapers that no blame could attach to t He Swedish minister min-ister in Argentina, who had acted in good faith and was without knowledge of the ' contents of the code telegrams. f Expect More Documents. Admiral Lindman added that he would l". bo astonished If Secretary of State .Tu.ig had more documents of a similar simi-lar character In store, emanating from tho European side, and In good faith and with tho consent of Great Jirltaln, forwarded for-warded to German official representatives in South America. LONDON, Sept. 11. The Swodish a f o r o i g n o t' fi e e , ne co rd i up to a f dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company, lias issued the following- statement regarding the ywodish-Argentinian revelations : The Swedish foreign office has not received any account regarding the transmission of the telegrams j mentioned in the statements oi' the government of the United States, and the Swedish government, therefore, there-fore, is unable at present to determine deter-mine what its position should be on the questions opened up by these statements. It is, however, accurate to sav that just after the world war broke jA out the Swedish foreign minister expressed the opinion that he ought to transmit a German telegram concerning con-cerning the civil population of Kiao-t'how Kiao-t'how Oho former German fortress in the Chinese peninsula of Shan-tuugV Shan-tuugV ?U. S. In Particular. """"" Statements to the same effect w ere made tn t lie renresentath es of both belligerent groups without there being any question of Sweden lakinsr over representation of any powers interests. As this regards the t'nited States In particular, the United States .minister .min-ister here has this year, in certain special cases, demanded and obtained priiission to transmit letters to and Jwm Turkey, and at ;-. rime when rrurkey was not in a state of war with f America and when Sweden had not yet taken over the protection of L American Interests. In the summer of IP15 t lie wish was I (Continued on Paso Two.) SWEDE! HOLDS HER DIPLOMAT BLAMELESS (Continued from Page One.) expressed from the British side that the transmission of telegrams between be-tween Germany and North America should cease. No forma! demand was made, but, notwithstanding this, the foreign minister acceded to the wish. The Swedish minister, who was cognizant of all the negotiations, was of the opinion that this was no bar to the continued transmission of tele-prams tele-prams to neutral Btates other than the United States, and, therefore, to Argentina. Acted as Intermediary. Since then Sweden has continued to be the intermediary for communications communica-tions between Germany and the Argentine Ar-gentine republic. The telegram mentioned in the American statement was written in code, and in transmitting it the Swedish minister was by that reason unable to decipher it. Whether Its contents were as reported re-ported is a point which tiie first duty of the Swedish government must be to confirm, and its next action must be to get an explanation from Germany Ger-many it' It be found that any misuse has taken place. Sweden will also, without regard to any reference made to her, take measures to prevent any recurrence of the incident. No application as to the cessation' of tjie transmission of telegrams from Germany to the Argentine republic has yet been made either by the British Brit-ish or American governments, even now or at any earlier period. Tho whole affair has only become known to the public through the press, but. in spite of this, the wishes officially offi-cially and seml-ofticiajly expressed by the interested parties would immediately immedi-ately have been acceded to. |