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Show I "" " . AstoundingJelegrams Fail Into Hands of United States Government I Legation in Argentina H Acts as Secret Com- H municator. H SENDS GERMAN CODE I Information of Sailing of . H Ships and Directions to H Submarines Sent. H WASHINGTON, Sept 8 How Swed-en's Swed-en's legation in Argentine, acting as H a secret means of communication be-tween be-tween the German charge in Buenos Aires and the Berlin foreign office, transmitted information of tho sailing of ships and directions for their de-structlon de-structlon by submarines was revealed today in official dispatches made pub-lie pub-lie by the state department. H The following was issued at the state H department: JH "The secretary of state today made jf the following statement: H "The department of state has secur- H ed certain telegrams from Count Lux- H burg, German charge d'affairs at Bue- H nos Aires to the foreign office at Ber- H lin, which, I regret to say, were dis- H patched from Buenos Aires by the H Swedish legation as their own official H messages, addressed to the Stockholm B foreign office. "The following are translations of H the German text: IH " 'May 19. 1917. Number 32. This government has now released German and Austrian ships on which hitherto H a guard has been placed. In conse- jH quence of the settlement of the Monte (Protcgido) case there has been a IH great change in public feeling. Gov- H ernment will in future only clear Ar-gentine Ar-gentine ships as far as Las Palmas. I beg that the small steamers Oran J and Guazo, 31st of January, (meaning which sailed 31st) 300 tons which are (now) nearing Bordeaux with a view to change the flag, may be spared, if possible, or else sunk without a trace being left ('Spurler versenkt'). (Signed) 'LUXBURG.' " 'July 3, 1917. No. 59. M " 'I learn from a reliable source H the acting minister for foreign affairs who is a notorious ass and Anglophile. H declared In a secret session of tho senate that Argentina would demand H from Berlin a promise not to sink more H Argentine ships. If not agreed to re- H lations would be brokah off. I recom- IH ' mend refusal and, if necessary, calling H in the mediation of Spain. H (Signed) 'LUXBURG.' " 'July 9, .1917, No. 64. Il " 'Without showing any tendency to make concessions postpone reply to jH Argentina note until receipt of further H reports. A change of ministry is prob- H able. As regards Argentina steamers H I recommend either compelling them H to turn back, sinking them without leaving any traces or letting them through. They are all quite small. H (Signed) " 'LUXBURG.' " H Copies of official dispatches sent to the Berlin foreign 'office hy Count Lux- burg, the German charge in Buenos Aires, in cipher through the Swedish legation there, as its own communica- jH tions, were mado public by Secretary Lansing, without any comment as to jH how they fell into the hands of this ifl government or any indication of what is to como as the result of tho dis- Copies Delivered In U. S. H Copies of the state department's an- fl nouncemont were delivered at the samo time they wero made public to H the Argentine embassy and tho Swed- ish legations here. H Besides revealing tho means by which Germany used Sweden in her H machinations in Argentina, the dis- patches show how tho German chargo, H at tho time Argontina was having a H critical diplomatic controversy with H Germany over submarine destruction H of her ships, was sending through tho H Swedish legation information of tho H sailings of certain vessels with rec- ommendations that they be sunk H "without leaving any traco" and in other dispatches wore Informing his H government how to regard Argentina's H ( Continued on Page 4 ) ' ; ' oo (Continued From rage 1) protests against tho destruction of her shipping. Relations Between Germany and Sweden. In the absence of any official comment com-ment whatover on the disclosures, it appeared that the manifest purposes of the United States in publishing the correspondence were two. First, to show the relations between Germany and Sweden, at least so far as the legations le-gations in Argentina were concerned; and, second, to disclose to Argentina, where German Influences seem to have been strongest in all South America, Amer-ica, the manner in which the German diplomatic agent At her capital was giving secret instructions for destruction destruc-tion of her shipping and the monner in which he was guiding his government govern-ment in dealing with Argentina diplomatically. diplo-matically. Germany recently gave Argentina Ar-gentina a promise that no more of her shipping would be submarined in violation vio-lation of international law. It was announced an-nounced that Argentina accepted Germany's Ger-many's promise as a satisfactory solution solu-tion to the situation which threatened a break In diplomatic relations, if not a dually war. Baron Akereilm, the Swedish charge d'affaires, knew of the contents of the dispatches or he would not have allowed al-lowed them to go forward. He said that, not having any advices from his own country, he would not comment on the matter at this time. At the Argentine embassy It was said any statement would be made later. no |
