The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
Swedish Espionage Incident
Brings Nation to Wars Brink.
Berlin Must DisavOw Minister'S
Acts or Face New Enemy.
Berlin Paper Says Exposure
Trouble Stirred Up by Allies.
Charge They Are Working for
German-Argentina Rupture.

Buenos Aires, Sept. 13.-Handing
passports to Count Luxburg, German
minister. Wednesday. the Argentina
government indicated its reopening of
the whole submarine controversy, with
the hint of an ultimatum threatening
a break with Germany.
Germany is to be asked to redefine
her U-boat plans and the Argentina
government holds that if these are
satisfactory, Berlin will be permitted
to send another minister to Buenos
Aires Otherwise, Argentina will with
draw heryIninister from Berlin.
The Argentina government request
ed Count Luxburg to leave the coun-
try Immediately. The Argentina min
lister at Berlin was instructed to ask
Germany at once to explain the whole
Luxburg incident.
Military authorities were ordered to
grant all possible protection to Count
Luxhurg from Cordoba. He had been
reported as having returned to Buenos
Aires today but was later understood
still to be at. Cordoba.
Authoritative information this af-
ternoon was that the government was
moderately satisfied" with Stock
holm's explanation of the LuNburg in
cident and that no step would be ia
ken against that nation.
The Note of Dismissal.
The note sent by Foreign Minister
Pueyrredon to Count Won Luxburg in
which the German minister was ten
dered his passports reads:
Mr. Minister
.You hnving ceased to be persona grata
TO the Argentina government that govern
ment has decided to deliver to you your
passports which l transmit herewith by
order of his eXcellency the president Of
the nation
structions to assist you in your immediate
departure from the territory Of the repub-
(Signed) III PUEYRREDoN.
"To Count Karl Won Luxburg, envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary
Of the German empire"
Result of Exposure.
Dismissal of the German envoy had
been a foregone conclusion since the
United States revealed his correspond
ence with Berlin, conducted secretly
thru the agency of the Swedish lega-
ton.
has been instructed to inform the Ger
man foreign office. that Count Won
Luxburg has been handed his pass
ports and to ask for explanations re-
garding the telegram disclosure.
Chance to Save Face.
If the German government disap-
proves of the text of the German min
ister's dispatches and esp cially of the
word ASS which term the count APP
piled to the Argentine foreign minis
ter, the situation may clear. If Ber-
lin decides not to disavow the minis
ter's course Argentina VIII recall her
minister from Germany but may per-
init the legation to remain.
If Germany expresses a desire to
maintain relations with Argentina,
Notwithstanding the expulsion of
Count Won Luxburg, it was said at the
foreign office this government would
be willing to consider the question.
Demand Shin Policy
Argentina also has asked the Ger
man government for a full explana-
ton of it's present policy of sinking
of Argentine ships. This apparently
ship Toro. but in view of Count Won
Luxburgs notes, which antedated
that settlement, Argentina desires a
clear statement. A rupture, the Of
ficials say is not necessary if Ger
many is inclined to make concessions
but if she does not do so it is certain
there will be a break in diplomatic
relations.
Newspaper Apologies.
Berlin, Sept. 12.-The semi-official
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeituns to-
day prints a lengthy apology in con-
nection with the Swedish-Argentine
disclosures. The newspaper attributes
the publication of the revelations to
the entente powers wish to produce
q new crisis in the relations between
new trouble to the Swedish govern
ment.
The paper continues:
The German government has, in
sfact, occasionally called on the assist
ance Of the Swedish government fol
the transmission of news to and from
neutral countries from which Germany
has been cut off " the illegal con
duct of Great Britain and her allies.
1.-The government of the United
States, while outwardly neutral, un
dertook in numerous cases to transmit
coded German official kilograms anC
Germany. conforming to her natura
position as a land of transit, also act
ed as agent in the exchange of new
between Russia and England"
The article concludes with a ref