Licking Valley courier., 1917-09-20

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Count Luxburg, the German minister
who advised that Argentine vessels be
"spurios versenkt'-sunk without a
trace being left-has been given his
passports and the Argentine minister in
Berlin has been instructed to ask the
imperial government for full expla-
nation regarding Mr.. Lansing's disclos.
ures and as to its present policy Of
sinking Argentine ships. Argentine Of
fcials say that there will be dlplo-
matte rupture If Germany does not dis
approve the text Of LuXburg's dis
patches and make concessions concern
ing U-boat warfare.
In Buenos Aires the people wildly
cheered the news of Luxburg's dismis-
sal and then broke out into anti-Ger-
man riotlng, attempting to burn the
buildings of the German club and
German newspaper and destroying sew
eral blocks Of German business houses.
Semioflicially Germany has admitted
the truth of Lansing's statements but
denies there was violation Of neutral
ity on Sweden's part, and says the dis
closures were made by the allies only
to produce new crisis in the relations
between Argentina and Germany and to
make trouble for Sweden.
go Another Expose by Landing.
On Thursday Mr.. Lansing added to
Sweden's discontinue by making pub
lie translation of letter dated
March 8, 1915, from German Minister
Won Eckhardt at Mexico City to the
imperial German chancellor asking
that the emperor confer decoration
on FOlke CrOnhOlm, then Swedish
charge d'affaires in Mexico, In recog.
milton of his services in forwarding
Won Eckhardt's reports to Berlin
through the Stockholm foreign office
and under cover Of the official Swedish
cipher. The minister urged that the
decoration be conferred secretly In
order not to arouse the suspicious OF
the entente allies. CrOnhOlm was re-
placed as Swedish charge last Febru'
airy hut has remained in Mexico City
These revelations seem to make un
necessary any further search for the
secret channel through which Berlin
was informed In advance of the dis
patch of American destroyers to Eu
ropean waters and of other American
war movements.
Secretary Lansing Is said to he II
possession of further sensational facts
hut during the rest of the week h
sat tight waiting for Foreign Minlste
: lindman and his colleagues to justlf
their action II they can. The Swedisl
press admits that the people Of tn
country are proving themselves to b
, what the Germans call them-"sill
Swedes."
{ On the Battle Fronts.
. Increasing resistance by the Au
.. trinns checked the advance of the Ita
Y ians toward Lembach and Trieste In.
/. week, but 1t was ut tremendous expens
4 in casualties and prisoners to the en-
I. my. The severest fighting was for II
@ possession of Monte San Gabriel
n After being pushed back down 1
n slopes early In the week, the Italian
o climbed up again and firmly wlthsto,
n repeated attacks. A little furth
g south, on the Bainsizza plateau, Il
z. AuStrians were no more successful
their fierce assaults.
Is All along the west front there we
n artillery combats, trench raids III
IS fighting in the mir, but neither sl
Al made any ground gains of momel
'e The allied avlators We're especial
n busy with bombing expeditions al
IL flight patrols, Many tons of explosiv
le were dropped on alrdromes, rOilw
In Obiectives and docks back of the q,
O. man lines.
to American Artillery In France.
ne The war department permitted 1t
o. be known Thursday that large C
lingent of American artillery has be
et added To General pcrshlng's expe
al tlOnary force In France and that It's
he tensive training with the French
to and six-inch howitzers is well un,
"a, way There have been many repor
Ne derived from private letters. that
American troops already have been
gagged In various battles, but the Z
us ernment has given out no lntlmat
sh that these are true. As such fight
To Nould scarcely take place without so
en casualties, and as Secretary Baker
Dm promised to publish casualty II
his promptly, the stories probably are
lOr true
ed. British losses by submarine actly
is were the smallest since the opening
nat the "rgthless" campaign. The most s.
/. Gus toss reported was that OF the
to lantc transport liner Mlnuehaha, $,
nst by ttspldo when west.bound. II
lily. said theGBfitish have new submar