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Show State Department Gives to Public a Letter Written Writ-ten From the German Embassy in Mexico City to Berlin Asking Decoration for Representative Repre-sentative of Sweden. LATTER HAD GIVEN VALUABLE ADVICE Also Secured Information Informa-tion From the Enemy Countries ; Count Von Luxburg Returns to Buenos Aires and Dodges Mob; Sweden's Explanation Received By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. Swedish-German Swedish-German duplicity, which has threatened to embroil Argentina and Germany, was exposed by the state department today as working its inimical hand in Mexico. The Swedish charge d'affaires in Mexico Mexi-co City gave to the German minister tiiere information from the allied countries, coun-tries, lie transmitted messages for the German minister through the Swedish foreign office to Berlin. So extensive and so valuable were his services up to March, 1316, that Hen von Eckhardt, the 'German minister, recommended recom-mended that the kaiser beslow upon Herr Folkc Cronholm, the Swedish charge, an imperial German decoration. Its award to be kept secret until after the war. A copy of the letter recounting these services and making this recommendation recommenda-tion from Von Eckhardt to the German chancellor was made public by Secretary of State Lansing today. Morris Filed in French. At the same time, that this announcement announce-ment was made the secretary of state gave out a report from Ira Nelson Morris, American minister at Stockholm. Mr. Morris declares that while tho Swedish foreign office was transmitting German messages in German code for the German diplomats, it was requiring Morris to file his messages to Constantinople via the Swedish foreign office In French. The revelation In the Mexico City letter of this further proof of Swedish pro-Germanism can be met, according to opinion here tonight, only by the dismissal from Swedish services of the guilty parties, a break in relations between Sweden and Germany and a proper a pot ok v to the L'nlted Stales and the other allies. Sinned Against U. S. The, I'ni ted Stales was sinned against. In the Mexican transact ion in much the same way as was Great Britain in the Argentine. The secret Gorman messages were transmitted over the cable and telegraph tele-graph lines of the United Staf'3 from Mexico City to Europe under t he guarantee guar-antee of the Swedish diplomat just as were the Luxbutg dispatches sent over Iho British cables. At the time of the letter which reveal: ! these things the I'nfted States had not yet entered the war. But the United States was then in the hottest part of Die Mexican embroglio. It was just at this time, March, l")fi, that I ' ncho Villa was raid lug into t ho territory of the United States, killing and robbing. The .state depart n ien t refuses to connect con-nect German and Swedish nctjvjlies with the Mexican assaults against the United Stales. ' Officials Reserved. No official tonight would say that thin source of information as to die activities oi, the Unif-d Slates Is still open to Germany. Ger-many. NfMher V'-n Iv-khanit nor Cronholm Cron-holm are now In Mexico. Hut the rosl-liilll rosl-liilll v tbri t through nnine such clia niiel leaked (lie hewn of the Ktiilfng of I'er-shing's I'er-shing's transports and other niililary iipwh has shocked the novernmeiit and the allied al-lied diplomatic corps from top to bottom. bot-tom. Last .January Cronhnhn was summarily dismissed the Swedish service. Ho was last heard of in 'a 1 i f or n ia . This was a 11 t ha t Mm ron Akerhielm. t lie Swedish chart: o t Wa hI; inert on. would admit that he knew of lh" ccsc tnnigbt. Today's exposure ipny result In a brek hetwe-n Mexi'O and GerJminy. Senor Bo-nlila, Bo-nlila, Mexican minister here. was in March. 1'C. minister of public works and com mimical Ions in t lie ('iirranu government. govern-ment. Under Ids Mdmlnistra t inn communication communi-cation between Mexico and I lie central powers was forbidden the public. It would, of course, have been afforded to Germa ny's diplomat ic representative throng!) tiie regular channels. Hut the method ff rommunic.ition reported re-ported to by the Swedish channel mav be, regarded in Mexico as a direct and sinie- (Continued on Pae Three.) EH! IS EXPOSED j (Continue! from Page Cns.) : m- tension of ihc Mexn an repu'at ions, son'ir Hondla had seen only press, . opies of tiie Yon Kvkl.ardt letter toniKht, hut indicated that if the state department formallv cave him a copy of it he would immediately transmit it to his government for action. Confers With Swedish Charge. Sei-rotarv Knnsii siiil insistri thai O'.e I.uxburir iel'rums have not bf-n made the t-iiniort of diplomatic intercourpo between be-tween the I'nitd Suites and Sweden. Vie had a !ohk conference this morning, however, how-ever, with Baron Akei hielm, Swedish cliHvqo here. It is stronclv telle ved here in man) quarters that the Swedish lesv.tion here is alreaciv under the closest survfillanre. The Swedish minister. Herr KKcnmn. continues to absent himself from V,ish-ini;t'.':i. V,ish-ini;t'.':i. The state department was aslrd ! this .uternoon whether his absence was because he was not welcome here at this time. "That would be too wide an assumption." assump-tion." was the cautious reply. The affairs of the legation are in charge of Baron Akcrhelm. who also has charge of Austrian affairs here at this time. Policy of State Department. The state department is apparently maintaining its policv of not treating diplomatically with the Swedish government govern-ment over these disclosures. In connection connec-tion with the department's frequent distinctions dis-tinctions between the Swedish people and the wedish government this is taken to mean that the state department hopes to attain through publicity a repudiation of Swedish pro-Germanism which it might not be possible to secure through diplomatic diplo-matic negotiations. The accounts of the Luxburg revelations were printed in the Swedish papers. They brought forth a severe criticism of the foreign minister in power at that time for what' was characterized as Ills indiscretion in permitting the German minister in Argentina Ar-gentina to abuse his privileges. It is now believed that the publication in Sweden of the latest revelation showing show-ing an habitual lending to Germanv of the neutral diplomatic privileges of Sweden, and of even the information service of the Swedish diplomat in Mexico, will bring a far more severe condemnation. Court Pro-German. As the state department sees the Swedish situation in the light of press comment just received, the Swedish people peo-ple keenly desire to be strictly neutral. It is known, however, that certain Swedish court influences are avpwedly pro-German, and that they are supported in the government of official action by huge business busi-ness interests who have made millions and millions of dollars out of Sweden's war business with Germany. The rousing of public indignation in Sweden over the "Lansing revelations is counted upon to kill tiie influence of this pro-German clique and, very probably, to result in a break of relations with Germany Ger-many for the way in which the Teuton empire has abused Sweden's privileges. The ground was cut from beneath the official Swedish excuse for these practices by the report of Ira Kelson Morris, our minister at Stockholm. The Swedish foreign for-eign office contended that in affording facilities for communication -to Count Luxburg the Swedish foreign office did no more for Germany than it did for the United Slates when it permitted the United States minister at Stockholm to send his messages to Constantinople through the Swedish foreign of lice and through Germany. Statement of Morris. The following information was elicited from the slate department today on this phase of (he question: "It will lie , rememberer that the Swedish foreign minister, in his official statement with regard to the Luxburg telegram, said : " 'The American minister here during the present year asked for and received leave to send to and from Turkey letters and telegrams, and this at a time when Turkey had not yet gone to war with the United States and its interests had not yet been taken over by the Swedish representative in Constantinople.' "Mr. Ira Nelson Morris, tiie American minister to Sweden, states that the Swedish government was not requested to forward any telegrams before April 10 or some time later. Mr. Morris had. at the direction of the department of state, ! inquired whet her the Swedish govern-! govern-! ment would be willing to assume charge of Ameiiran interests in Turkey in case of a rupture. The Swedish government required tha t all telegrams whih were tn be forwarded by Swedish officials for the United States to and from Constantinople Constan-tinople should he delivered 'In French' tb the foreign office at Stockholm or the Swedish legation at Constantinople and there put into the Swedish cipher for transmission. The innocuous contents of these mcssasrrs was, therefore. In every instance entirely clear to the transmitting agents. "Mr. Morris states that he did not request re-quest permission to forward tetters to or from Turkey until some time in July, about twelve weeks after Sweden had taken over American interests in Turkey. In making this request, Mr. Morris particularly par-ticularly asked that such letters and the replies thereto he forwarded nn!y with the knowledge and approval of the sublime porte." |