Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-21
Presidents Opposition Is
Likely to Be SweptAside
w hen Revelations
Become Known.
fRv Assnciated Preax

Through long series of kilograms
exchanged between the notorious Count
Luxburg. former German charge in
Argentina. and the Berlin Foreign
Office, the State Department tonight
/ disclosed further facts about German
diplomatic trickcry and at the same
time shed light upon some hitherto
unexplained activities Of certain Latin
American statesmen.
! Luxburs, in one of his messages.
dated August last. reported that
J President 1rigoycn. of Argentina, at
| last had made UP his mind TO conclude
Il 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 military conference.
strongly supported by President Car
rama. Of Mexico. and much discussed
! in some OF tho South American coun-
! tries. while the proposed secret agree
mcnt may explain reports that came
| from Eucnos Aires recently of Prcsi-
! btItL lTiSoScUS lOr league
OF South Americans.
| In Latin American diplomatic quar-
/ tcrs here IL is regarded as certain that
disclosures Will result very quickly in
an Argentine declaration OF war
against Germany. Congress and a
ma jority of the people favored this step
when tho American government made
public the Spurious verscnkt" tsink
! I, IA,,
and it is believed that the Presidents
opposition now will be swept away If
! it is not Withdrawn.
/ MESSAGES MADE PUBLIC
BS STATE DEPARTMENT
The messages to-day were made pub
| lie by tho State Department in agree
mcut with tho Argentine government.
which, in AN accompanying statement
| by its Foreign Minister. says the in
accuracics" of the German diplomats
reports arc SO surprising that no cpl
| thct will fit them. The messages were
! sent TO Argentina soon after the State
! Department gave out the first series
| OF intercepted kilograms. but hereto
| fore demands for their publication have
| been in vain.
The first Of LuXburss intercepted
! kilograms were transmitted 10 Berlin
| by the Swedish legation at Buenos
| Aires in it's diplomatic code. and pub
! lication Of that fact by Secretary Lam
| sing not only threw Argentina into
a turmoil resulting in the dismissal
OF the charge. but precipitated a crisis
| in Sweden.
| No explanation is given of the means
by which The later messages were sent.
though one or two of the kilograms
| in to-days batch were among those
| given out previously.
All of the correspondence was OK
changed during July. August and carly
! September. and most OF ii deals di-
rcctly with the negotiations then in
! progress over the sinking of Argen-
J tihe ships by German submarines Be-
iore the messages reached the Amcri-
can government. Germany virtually
mad settled the matter by agreeing to
| pay indemnity and to treat Argentine
ships according TO international law
ne secret reports now reveal that Ar
Een.ina on i.s side was to keen ito
ships out of danger by not allowing
thcm to sail for the war zone, an easy
task in view Of the fact that she
mad almost no shipping left.
throughout the messages Iuxbrrr
dwells upon his difficulties with the
| -h'hisler' ana upon his inhu-
ehcc with the President. Finally he
WAS conducting negotiations directly
with the President
EXTENT OF IRIG0yEx,c
| PROJECT NOT REVEALED
no" lar PRESIDENT 1rigoyen's project
Tor an anti-North American alliance
"e"'' me correspondence does not dis
close 1t merely says that he made nm
| 1t,la
with Bolivia and Chile. "a mutual
rapprochement for protection r;s-o
Wis North America being the purnose
as described in the concluding tele-
gram OF the series. However. I,,y
burg. addressing an unnamed pcrsor :,
Santiago, Chile. probably the German
minister there. says that as lone nc
chile is neutral Germany after the war
Will be able TO carry out her Souib
American policy just as we'll, if not
more easily. in opposition to an "in
fatuated and misguided Argentina as
with Argentina on her side" This ap-
rarently was written when the likeli-
hood of the President holding Arecn-
tina out of the war appeared to be
| fading.
! Minister Naon. of Argentina, declined
tonight to make any comment upon
the matter. further than to say that
the statement of the Foreign Minister
covered the situation. lie was advised
or the purpose Of the United States
and his government to make the mes
sagcs public here and at Bucnos Aires
simultaneously.
Count Luxburg still is in Argentina,
although safe conduct was secured for
him long ago. and there have been fire.
quent announcements of his plans for
sailing for North European neutral
i country. The last report received here
concerning him said he was under
going treatment in sanatorum for q
nervous disorder. For a time lie was in
detention camp, probably chiefly be-
cause tho Argentine public was so
| Continued on Fourth page.)