Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-21
SHOW HOW GERMAN PLANNED LEAGUE
 AGAINST TAE US. Another Set of Messages From Envoy Published by
 State Department. EXPLAIN MANY MOVES OF LATIN AMERICANS Show How President Irig0yen Tried t0 Form League for "PrOtec.
 ton Against North
 America.'

washington, Dec. ZO.-in"3ugh long series of teieglams exchanged between the notorious Count I.uxburg, former German charge in Argentina, and the German foreign office, the State Department tonight disclosed further facts about German diplo- matic trickery, and at the same time shed light upon some hitherto unex- plained activities of certain Latin American statesmen. Luxburg in one of his messages, dated August 1 re- ported that President Irigoyen of Ar gentina at last had made up his mind to conclude 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 Latin-Amer- ican neutrality conference strongly supported by President Carranza of Mexico, and much discussed in some South American countries, while the proposed secret agreement may ex- nlain reports that have come from Buenos Aires recently of President Irigoyen's proposals for league of South American nations. In Latin American diplomatic quarters here it is regarded as certain that the dis closures will result very qnickly in an Argentine declaration of war against Germany.
 Congress and majority of the people favored this step when the American government made public the "spurlos versenkt" (sink without trace) messages of Luxburg, and it is believed that the presidents opposi- tion will be swept away, if it is not withdrawn. The messages given out today were made public by the State Department in agreement with the Argentine government, which in an accompanying note by it's foreign German diplomatic reports are so sur- prising that no epithet will fit them. The messages were sent to Argen- tina soon after the State Department gave out the first series of intercepted telegrams, but heretofore demands for their publication had been in vain. All of the correspondence was ex- changed through July, August and early September, and most of it deals with the negotiations then in progress over the sinking of Argentine ships by German submarines. Before the message fell into the hands of the American government, the Germans had settled the matter by to pay indemnity and to treat Argentine ships according to in- ternational law. The secret report now reveals that Argentina on it's side was to keep it's ships out of dan- ger by not allowing them to go to the war zone, an easy task in view of the fact that she had almost no ship ping left.
 Throughout the messages 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 Iri- goyen's project for an anti-North alliance went, the corre- spondence does not develop. It mere ly says that he made up his mind to conclude the agreement with Bolivia and Chile, "a mutual approachment for protection against North Ameri- ca." being the purpose as declared in the concluding telegrams of the ser ies. However, Luxburg's addressing an unnamed person in Santiago, Chile, the German minister there, says that as long as Chile is neutral, Germany after the war will be able to carry out her South American policy just as we'll as if not more easily in opposition to an "infatuated and mis- guided Argentina as with Argentina on her side" This was apparently written when the likelihood of the president holding out of the war ap- peared to be failing.
 Minister Mayon of Argentina de- clined tonight to make any comment on the matter further than to say thas the statement of the foreign minis ter covered the situation. He was ad- vised of the purpose of the united
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