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Show TREACHERY OF ! More Messages Disclosing Perfidy Per-fidy in Dealing With South American Countries. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. Two more of tho notorious Count Von Luxburg's messages to the German foreign offlce from Buenos Aires were made public last night by Lansing. They provide official confirmation of Germany's plan to control southern Brazil, shdd additional addi-tional light upon Teutonic intrigue in South America generally and reveal that Luxburg appealed vainly for a squadron of submarines with which to awe some Latin-Americans and to flatter flat-ter others with salutes. , These dispatches, like others that have gone before, were given out by Secretary Lansing without discussion of their contents. The only comment was in this statment attached to the copies: j "In view of the fact that the substance sub-stance of certain telegrams addressed by Count Luxburg to the German foreign for-eign office has been published, the secretary sec-retary of state makes public tho actual ac-tual text of tho telegrams." Wanted Submarines. The messages follow: "No. 63. July 7. 1917. Our attitude towards Brazil has created the Impression Impres-sion here that our easy-going good nature na-ture can be counted on This Is dan gerous in South America where the people, under thin veneer, arc Indians. J i A submarine squadron with full pow-, ers to mo might probably still save tho situation. I request instructions j , as to whether, after a rupture of rela-, rela-, tions, legation is to start for home or to remove to Paraguay or possibly Chili. The naval attache will doubt-. doubt-. less go to Santiago de Chili. "Luxburg." i Flattery of a Salute, i "No. 89, August 4. 1917. I am convinced con-vinced that we shall be able to carry through our political aims in South ' America, the maintenance of open market mar-ket in Argentine and the reorganiza-i reorganiza-i tion of outh Brazil, equally well ; whether with or against Argentina. , Please cultivate friendship with Chile. : The announcement of a visit of a sub-, sub-, marine squadron to salute the prosi-I prosi-I dent would even now exerciso decisive , influence on tho situation in South .America. Prospoct excollent for wheat harvest in December. "Luxburg." After tho state department made public the "sink without a trace." messages which caused Argentina to hand Von Luxburg his passports, the Argontlno govornment sent to Washington Wash-ington a number of the former Ger- j man minister's dispatches for declph-1 ering. Whether the two now published publish-ed were among thorn or wero obtained obtain-ed by the United States at tho same1 time it came into possession of other , telegrams forwarded to Berlin through the Swedish legation at Buenos Aires Is not disclosed. Several days ago press reports from Buenos Aires said . a senation liad been created there by ! the publication of a dispatch from Rio ! Janeiro saying the Brazilian foreign ' minister had made known that translations trans-lations of tho Luxburg messages re-i re-i vealed a German plot t.o invade southern south-ern Brazil. The Argentine nowspapers demanded that their government either publish tho dispatches or "authorize their publication by a foreign government." govern-ment." "The reorganization" of South Brazil referred to by Von Luxburg Is assumed here to refer to the activities of the Hamburg colonization company in connection con-nection with the large German clement already located in tnai section. Several Sever-al months before this dispatch was written there were reports of plans for a German insurrection. German Insurrection. The break between Argentina and Germany which Voa Luxburg apparently apparent-ly was "expecting. In July has not yet come and latest advices from Buenos Aires do not Indlcato any intention on the part of tho Argentine government govern-ment to join Brazil and other Soiith American nations on the side of the allies. Von Luxburg wns kept In a detention camp for a tlmo after the exposure, is expected to sail for home November 1, the allies having agreed to grant him safe conduct for the voyage. voy-age. oo |