The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-21
GERMAN PLOT
IN ARGENTINA
WAS FAILURE
More Luxburg Dispatches
Given Out BY Lansing
HAD MANY SCHEMES
Tried to lnjure Standing of the
United States in South America
and to Helo. Germany.

Washington. Dec 21.-Through a
long series OF kilograms exchanged
between the notorious Count Luxburg
former German charge in Argentina,
and the Berlin foreign office. the
state department at Washington last
night disclosed further facts about
German diplomatic trickery and at the
same time shed light upon some hith-
erto unexplained activities of certain
Latin-American statesmen. LuXburg
in one of his messages, dated August
l. last, reported that President jrigo-
yen of Argentina at last had made
up his mind to conclude secret
agreement with Chill 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 conference
strongly supported by President Car
rama OF Mexico and much discussed
in some of the South American
countries while the proposed secret
agreement may explain reports that
have come from Buenos Aires re-
Gently of President Irigoyen's pro
posals for a league of South Ameri-
can nations. Sl
In Latin-American diplomatic quar-
ters here It is regarded as certain
that the disclosure will result very
quickly in an, Argentine declaration
of war against Germany, Congress
and majority of the people favored
this step when the American govern
ment made public the 'tspurlos Yer
senkt" (sink without trace) MES.
Sages OF Luxburg and it believed
that the presidents opposition now
will be swept away If it is not with.
drawn. 91t..
Throughout the message Luxburg
dwells upon his, difficulties with. the
foreign minister and upon his influ
ence with the president. Finally he
was conducting negotiations directly
with the president, although the for.
eign minister's attitude made this
troublesome. How far President lri
guyens projects for an anti-North
American alliance went the CORE.
spondence does not develop 1t mere
ly says that he made up his mind
to conclude the agreement with Bo-
livia and Chill, "a mutual rapproche-
ment for protection vis-a-vis North
America" as the purpose was de-
scribed In the concluding telegram
OF the series, however Luxburg, ad-
dressing an unnamed person in San
tiago, Chilli, probably the German
minister there, says that as long as
Chilli is neutral Germany after the
war will be able to carry out her
South America policy just as well, il
not more easily, in opposition to an
infatuated and misguided Argentina
as with Argentina on her side This
apparently was written when the
likihood of the president holding Ar
gentina out of the war appeared TO
be fading. 1a
Count Luxburg still is in Argentina
although safe conduct was secured
for him long ago and there have
been frequent announcements of his
plans for sailing for a north Euro
pean neutral country. The last re-
port received at Washington concern
ing said he was undergoing treat
ment in a sanitarium for a nervous
disorder. For time he was in de-
tention camp, probably chiefly be-
cause the Argentine public was so in
censed against him that II was not
safe to have him at large.