Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-14
GOVERNMENT HAS MANY
FACTS NOT YET
DISCLOSED
OFFICIALS AROUSED
THREATEN TO EXPOSE TO sWED-
lSH PEOPLE DUPLlClTY OF
THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, "
ANY ATTEMPT is MADE TO GOV.
Err UP ACTS.
BY JOHN EDWIN NEVIN
International News Service Staff Cor

BY JOHN EDWIN NEVIN.
International News Service Staff Cor
respondent
Washington, Sept. 1.-THE United
States has hardly scratched the sur
face in its revelations of the extent
of German intrigue through Swedish
and other neutral sources. High ad-
ministration officials made this plain
today
What has been made public up to
the present time Is inconsequential
when compared with information yet
withheld. Whether the latter is to be
divulged as public information Is
known only to Secretary of State
Lansing and President Wilson.
The secretary refused today to in
dicate his future plans. 1t is believ-
ed, however, that If the present poll.
cy is maintained at Stockholm of try
ing to convince the Swedish people
that their officials simply have follow.
ed recognized diplomatic routine the
United States must continue its revel-
ations and that officials much nearer
Washington than those already men,
toned will be involved.
1t can be stated on the highest au-
thority that the state department will
not give a "clean bill Of health" to
any Swedish official at the present
time. The program of intrigue has
been far-reaching. Hundreds Of dis.
patches which reached Berlin thru
neutral channels-the majority Swe-
dish-are now in possession OF the
state department.
Whether any of these refer to move
ments of American troops or of Amer.
ican warships is a subject on which
officials are mute. 1t is admitted that
certain of these dispatches went to
Berlin since America entered the war.
Washington, Sept. 14-Aghast over
the latest official disclosures con-
clusively proving that Germany has
utilized Swedish diplomatic repre-
sentatives throughout the world as
"Pawns in her war game" diplomatic
Washington today was asking itself
where the revelation will end and
who yet is to be involved State De-
partment officials, smiling and extrem-
ely suave, had nothing to say. They
are content to play their cards as the
game develops. Every time that
Sweden or certain other nations that
soon will be involved make reply de-
signed to justify their revelations of
neutrality Of which this country has
conclusive evident proof Secretary
Lansing is prepared to produce "in-
teresting documents" to show that the
only persons deceived have been the
neutrals who acted as agents for Ger
many.
"The state department is filled with
bombshells" said an official of 1t today.
"They will be exploded as the secre-
tary thinks best. German gold blind
ed many diplomats on the American
continent But the facts have been
known here and the possibilities
guarded against for many months"
The fact that the neutral diplo-
mats here are just beginning to re-
alize that the United States has not
been asleep since the European war
commenced was very evident today
Certain of them who heretofore have
, been outspoken in expressing their
; sympathies for Germany, today tool
, an entirely opposite line. All wanted
, to learn whether there was any In
Y timation from the state department
1 as to how far the United States In
h tends to go along present lines. The
n Swedish minister Mr.. w A. r. Eken
gren, remained out of the city, pre-
sumably somewhere in the vicinity
@ of Manchester, N. II II was stated
r that he was expected to return at an,
$ time now, although the officials Of ths
legation professed to have no posi-
" tive knowledge or his whereabouts
L. The charge, Baron II. Akerheilm, de
d MED himself to newspaper correspond
It ents early in the day, although 1t wal
intimated that he might have state
1t ment later in the day.
" AT the LECTION officials declared
c that Herr Folken Gronholm, who hat
IS charge at Mexico city and who wa
shown to have acted in the role OF
spy for Herr Won Eckhardt, the Ger
man minister at Mexico City, no Ions
ki er was in the Swedish diplomatic ser
10 vice. They refused to say where h
Df was at the present time,
y. The Mexican ambassador, Seno