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Show LUXBURG'S DISGRACE. Xo diplomatic representative has suffered suf-fered sueh humiliation- and disgrace iu i recent years as Count Luxburg, the ' German minister to Argentina. Having j advised his government to murder Ar- gentine citizens on the high seas he re- i turned to Buenos Airee to find that he had been completely unmasked by the secret service of the United States. ''What has happened?" he inquired with gaping wouder and baffled rage when he heard that mobs were de- manding his punishment. "I did not know anything had happened!" If the affair had not been so serious the plight of the disgraced envoy would have been surpassingly ridiculous. !He was caught red-handed in his peculiarly peculiar-ly Prussian crimes and did not even have time to formulate some suave diplomatic dip-lomatic excuse. Ho was taken completely com-pletely by surprise and could only-splutter only-splutter in his astonishment and chagrin. cha-grin. vAnd now this blood-thirsty monster is compelled to ask the Argentine government gov-ernment to delay for a few days his j expulsion from the country so that he may think of some place on the globe I where the representative of a univer- j sally hated government can take up his ' residence. Four-fifths of the people of ! the earth are at war with Germany and ' its allies. The remainder of the j earth's inhabitants have no use for au agent of Prussian militarism. He is welcome nowhere except, perhaps, at the king's court in Sweden. Even the Swedish people, we make not the slightest slight-est doubt, detest him. The Swedish government has placed itself in the same class with the Prussian Prus-sian government and1 that is a disgrace which the Swedish people can ill afford to endure. An election -is at hand in Sweden and the people have an opportunity op-portunity to repudiate their government govern-ment and clear themselves before the world. Berlin is said to take the view that it is entirely freed from blame, be cause it did not follow the sanguinary advice of Luxburg, but if Prussia had not been responsible for many murders mur-ders by sea and land none of its diplomatic diplo-matic representatives would have dared-to dared-to advi&t a policy of murder iu an official of-ficial communication to the government. |