The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
TELEGRAMS REVEAL
LUXBURG INTRIGUE
ATTEMPTED TO FORM LEAGUE Or
SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS
TO WAR ON v. S.
HAD SECRET WIRELESS PLANT
Expose Of kaiscr's Double Dealing
Considered Likely to Result in
Argentine Declaring War.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or wal
against Germany by Argentina was
considered almost certain in Latin-Am-
erican diplomatic circles as the result
of new evidence of German trickery,
disclosed simultaneously in Washing
ton and Buenos Aires.
Impetus was given the diplomatic
situation by the publication of another
series of kilograms between the motor
ious Count Luxburg, of Spurlos Yer.
senkt fame, and Berlin foreign Office.
An indication of the means used by
Count Luxburg to evade detection in
communicating with his government is
found in one dispatch where reference
is made to his fear that the secret
wire" had been discovered. Another
refers to an interruption of his wire
to Mexico.
Had Secret Wireless Station.
A telegram dated July 20 last an.
nouncd the completion of receiving
plant" and asked for the wave length
of the great wireless station at Nauen
Luxburg, former German charge in
al
gust 1, last, informed his foreign Off
ce that President Irigoyen of Argentina
had at last made up his mind to ne
gotiate a secret agreement with Chile
and Bolivia for protection against
North America.
Another telegram intimated an at
tempt would be made to include Peru
the plan was to be perfected, accord
ing to the Luxburg communication OF
August 1, before the conference idea
is taken up again"
"The conference idea" is assumed to
be the proposed Latin-American neu
trality conference advocated by Presi
dent Carranza and widely discussed in
South America. The secret agreement
referred to may explain recent South
American reports of President Irigo.
yen's proposals for a league of South
American nations.
The messages, 40 in number, were
made public by the state department
through an agreement with the Argen.
tine government and were accompan.
led by a statement from Foreign Min.
lister Puerreydon, in which he says the
inaccuracies" of the German charges
report are so surprising that no epithet
will fit them"
Advised Sinking Ships.
The messages were sent to Argen-
tine soon after the state department
gave out the first series in which
Luxburg advised his government to
sink Argentine ships without trace,
but heretofore demands for their publ
cation have been in vain.
The first series were transmitted
through the Swedish legation at
Buenos Aires, but the means of com.
munication used for the latest batch
sent during July, August and Septem-
Der, was not disclosed, except that
some of the first series kilograms
were included in ones made public last
week
Most of the correspondence given
out deals directly with the negotia-
tions then in progress over the sinking
of Argentine ships by German submar-
ines. Before the messages fell into
the hands of the American government
Germany virtually had settled the mat
ter by agreeing to pay indemnity and
20 treat Argentine ships according to
international law. The secret reports
now reveal that Argentina on it's side
was to keep it's ships out of danger
by not allowing them to sail for the
war zone, an easy task in view of the
fact that she had almost no shipping
left.