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Show ARGENTINA BREAKS R TEUTONIC DIPLOMACY BITTERLY ARRAIGNED BY ADVOCATES OF DIPLOMATIC BREAK. Famous Luxburg Message Results in the Lining Up of Another Nation Against the Kaiser and Gives the Allies Another Friend. Boenos Aires. The Argentine senate sen-ate by a vote of 23 to 1 declared a break of diplomatic relations with Germany on September 19. Foreign Minister Puyrredon appearedbefore ap-pearedbefore the sennte and read all the dispatches that passed between Germany and Argentina up to the dismissal dis-missal of Count Luxburg as charge d'affaires. He said that no further explanations ex-planations or negotiations were pending. Senator Gonzales spoke for three hours, bitterly arraigning German diplomacy di-plomacy throughout its history since Bismarck. He concluded by moving the resolution to break diplomatic relations re-lations with Germany. The motion was seconded by Senator Roca. who in an equally spirited speech pointed to the destruction of Argentine shipping and to Germany's policy of taking advantage of a militarily mili-tarily weak country, humiliating the republic before the world. Argentina's Argen-tina's national reputation, however, the senator declared, was a price that would never be conceded. Argentina's break with Germany comes ten days after Secretary of State Lansing startled two hemispheres hemis-pheres most of all Argentina herself by the revelation of the now famous "Luxburg messages." They showed Count von Luxburg German charge d'affaires at Buenos Aires, advising his government in cipher ci-pher dispatch sent through the Swedish Swed-ish legation that if Argentine vessels must he sunk by U-boats, it were better bet-ter to have them sunk without leaving leav-ing a trace behind. Incidentally he called the acting foreign minister a "notorious ass." Argentina was shocked as at no previous pre-vious event of the world war. Mobs formed at Buenos Aires and subsequently subse-quently in all parts of the republic, stormed and burned German houses of business and the anti-German movement move-ment quickly took on a character of revolutionary against the leniency with Germany. The Argentine government promptly dismissed Count Luxburg. Berlin at the same time asked him to come home and explain. Meanwhile demands de-mands for an explanation were dispatched dis-patched by Argentine to Germany. Sweden denied all official knowledge of the contents of the dispatch. |