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Show THE LAST STRAW. Up to the present time German influence in-fluence iD Argentina has been shone enough to keep the South American republic re-public out of the war, notwithstanding the Luxburg treachery and the sinkinc of several of Argentina's merchantmen. merchant-men. But the latest submarine attack, which resulted in the sinking of the Ministro Irriendo while Tying the Argentine Ar-gentine flag, has caused a commotion ut Buenos Aires and relations with the central powers have been strained almost al-most to the breaking point. As the liist mark of the displeasure of the Argentine government the military attaches at-taches at Vienna and Berlin have been rei'l!ed and another army officer who has been acting as war correspondent for one of the leading Buenos Aires newspapers has been ordered to return home. As the imperial German government had solemnly promised to sink no more Argentine vessels and to make reparation repara-tion for those already destroyed this latest act of piracy upon the hih seas has left the Rucnos Aires authorities no alternative but to show resentment. The recall of the two military attaches and the other army officer is the first result. Whether it wii! be followed by more drastic action remains to be seen. A majority of the Argentine people have favored a break with Germany ever since their first merchantman was sent to the bottom of the ocean, but the pro Herman element has always al-ways succeeded in preventing the desired de-sired .rupture and the patriotic outbursts out-bursts upon the part of those who wanted to fight for their rights went for naught. All this is not very surprising when we consider the work of tho German agents and conspirators all over the world in preparing for the war and what they have accomplished since hostilities hos-tilities began. So country has been free from the evil machinations of these German spies and plotters, not even the United States. The Berlin government made promises to us which she never fulfilled and finally openly defied us by announcing, tho inauguration inaugu-ration of the ruthless submarine campaign. cam-paign. Brazil, honeycombed with conspirators con-spirators and with a German colony prepared to revolt, went through ''the same experience as this country and was finally compelled to declare war as a matter of self-preservation. If Argentina has had enough of treachery and deceit and has reached the point where it will no longer tamely submit to the sinking of its merchantmen, a declaration of war will not be long in forthcoming and one more nation will have declared its purpose to fight autocracy to the death and aid in preventing pre-venting the domination of the entire world by the German militarists. |