Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-07
SOUTh AMERICA
 SHOULD MAKE
 WAR ON KAISER
Argentine's Former Minis ter of Foreign Affairs
 Condemns Germany.

Buenos Aires October 9.-(Corre. spondence of the Associated Press.)- Argentina and all the South Amer1- cas should declare war upon Ger many, declares Dr. Luis M. Drago, for merly Argentine minister Ot foreign affairs, in statement he has is- sued concerning the revelation that Count Luxburg, the former German ambassador, had proposed to the Ger man government that Argentine ships be "slink without trace"
 Dr.. Drago is one of the leading statesmen of Argentina, an interna- tional jurist and author of the "Dra- go dostrine." Much of the strength of the movement in Argentina to break off diplomatic relations with Germany is development of the widespread discussion of Dr. Drago's statement. In 1t he said:
 Count Luxburg's telegram cannot be considered exclusively as an indi vidua. act only affecting himself per sonally It is the result of an 1nti- mate collaboration between him and his government. It is not merely the minister accredited to the Argentine government w.1o has ceased to be persona grata to this country; it is the German government itself which, having received the monstrous coun sel to sink Argentine ships without leaving any trace, is directly responsi- ble for the excesses of it's agent who, for a long. time after the date of the telegram, has continued to fulfill his dual function of a diplomatic envoy and Of spy, working in combination ~r,sxIs Cxuodicf 1opot3nn
 "The German government appears to have received with complacency the secret communication of the agent who treated us so contemptu- ously, judging from the fact that it maintained and supported him in his post, completing through his inter mediation the settlement by means of which the good faith of our foreign office has been abused.
 Vt Is not unreasonable to sup pose that the ruthless counsel of the minister has been applied tb the steamer Curumalan -Argentine-owned and flying the Argentine flag-which disappeared mysteriously leaving no trace, some months ago on it's jour ney between Liverpool and Bahia Blanca, with a cargo of coal. There Is every reason to believe, moreover, that the recent explanations and promises of Germany responded to no other intention than that of being able to maintain here it's great South American espionage agency, with the assistance of the Swedish legation; so that If again now, Germany were to offer us new explanations and re newed protestations of friendship that would mean that some other DC cult motive induced such an attitude
 "If, many months ago, considered decidedly that we ough. to break witt Germany when that nation declared it's illegal blockade, with much more reason today, | am convinced that il is impossible to maintain cordial re lations with country which makes use of such methods and such agents ID break off our relations with Ger many, besides being in keping witt the national dignity, would place ui in line with the great democratic ma tions of the world and would strength en our bonds of union with the sister republics of this continent. The actiol of the Argentine government in con tinuins relations with the German soyetnment is serious wrong.
 .The Argentine government shoul have followed the example of th United States and declared wa against Germany when the. Unite States declared wart Having faile
 in this, it should now show it's his toric sympathy for the Pan-America
 movement and especially its frient ship for the United States. and follo'
 the policy of the United States. Al the Americans are now united to>pel
 petuatc that liberty which they wo
 by helping each other 100 years agt s and all should declare war on Gel many, whose government is con
 mon enemy of all who strive for fre'
 dom and truth"
 The Argentine senate and chambe