Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-12-21
Latin American Diplomats Be-
Iieve Messages Between
Luxburg and Berlin Cannot
Be Condoned Further
president IRIGOYEN
NOW IN BAD LIGHT
Buenos Aires Chief Executive
Believed in Plot to Frame
League Against United
States,

Washington, Dec. 20.-In a long
series of kilograms exchanged between
the notorius Count Luxburg, former
German charge in Argentina, and the
| Berlin foreign office, the state depart
ment tonight disclosed further facts
about German diplomatic trickery and
at the same time shed light upon some
hitherto unexplained activities of GER
| tain Latin-American statesmen.
Luxburg in one of his messages,
dated August /, last, reported that
President Irigoyen of Argentina at
! last had made ZIP his mind to conclude
a secret agreement with Chile and
Bolivia for protection against North
America "before the conference idea
is taken UP again" The conference
idea" is assumed to have been the
plan for a Latin American neutrality,
strongly supported by President Car
rama of Mexico and much discussed
in some of the South American coun-
tries. while the proposed secret agree
ment may explain reports that have
come from Buenos Aires recently of
arreiarut rrigc rens pasn8safT t3r q
league of South American nations.
Will Quickly Declare War.
In Latin American diplomatic quar-
ters here it is regarded as certain that
the disclosures will result very quickly
in an Argentine declaration of war
against Germany. Congress and a
, majority of the people favored this
step when the American government
made public the "spurlos versenkt'
(sink without a trace) messages OF
Luxburg, and it is believed the presi-
: dents opposition will be swept away
= if II is not withdrawn.
The messages given out today were
; made public by the state department
l in agreement with the Argentine gov
l ernment which in an accompanying
q+atement by its foreign minister says
4 the inaccuracies of the German
diplomats reports are so surprising
2 that no epithet will fit them. The
MESA ges We're sent to Argentina soor
= after the state department gave ou'
e the first series of intercepted tele'
@ grams, but heretofore demands fol
r their publication have been in vain
: lansing Doesn't Explain.
A The first of Luxburg's intercepted
Q teIeerams were transmitted to Berllr
!. by the Swedish legation at Bueno
e Aires in it's diplomatic code and pub
@ lication of that fact by Secretary
IiLaHSlIlR uOl ohiy -
into a turmoil, resulting in the dis
d missal of the charge. but precipitate'
n a crisis in Sweden. No explanation i
n given of the means by which the late
II messages were sent, though one o.
a two of the kilograms in today's batci
Q were among those given out previous
, ly. The famous "spurlos versenkt
i messages in which Luxburg recon-
mended avoiding difficulty with Ar
n gentina by sinking her ships withoo
IS leaving a trace, however does no
-e appear at this time.
r All of the correspondence was ex
o changed during July, August an
- early September, and most of 1t deal
- directly with the negotiations the
in progress over the sinking OF AT
>, gantine ships by German submarines
- Before these messages fell into TN
hands Of the American governmeu
Germany virtually had settled IN
mo tier by agreeing to pay indemnlt
and to treat Argentine ships accoro
ing to international law. The secre
A reports following reveal that Al
~ gentina on its side was to keep i
ships out of danger by not alloWin
them to sail for the war zone, an eas
e. task in view OF the fact that she ma
IN almost no shipping left.
MS | BuXWtTk INiiS DhAiSutti~S'
q Throughout the messages Luxbui
-. dwells upon his difficulties with II
q, foreign minister and upon his infl,
al ence with the president. Finally
or was conducting negotiations direct
he with the president, although the TO
be eign minister's attitude made tn
e. troublesome. How far President Ii
"a goyen's projects for an anti-Nor'
american alliance went, the corr
spondence does not develop. 1t mere
saws that he made up his mind to CO.
c,rde the agreement with Bolivia, al
:, Chile, "a mutual rapprochment 4
II nrotection vis-a-vis North America
being the purpose as described.
the concluding telegram of the serie
howeyer. Luxburg. addressing an u
an named person in Santiago, chi
OF nrobabIy tho German minister tnef
lat saws that as long as Chile IS neutr
it's Germany after the war VIII be ap
,k. 70 carry out her South American pc
Iya icv lust as we'll If not more easily
ed copposition to an infatuated ana MI
,as guided Argentina as with Argenul
VS. IN her side" This apparently w
he written when the Likelihood OF y
ed president holding Argentina out
led the war appeared to be fading.
ate Minister Naon of Argentina decnn
". tonight to make any comment up
the matter further than to say III