The sun., 1917-09-12
SWEDEN WON'T
RECALL ENVOY
Minister of FOrcigR Affairs
EXculpates Baron LOwen
in Note Scandal.

| STOCKHOLM. sept. 1l.-BaroG Lowen
the Swedish Minister to Argentina. will
not be recalled, according TO a. statement
made to the press tonight by Admiral
Lindman. Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Foreign Minister told the news
paper men that Baron Lowcn was not
blonea Bile for the tenor OF the messages
which passed through the Swedish Lega-
ton sent by the German Charge to the
Berlin Foreign Office. and he had acted
in good faith and did not know the con-
tents OF the dispatches.
Admiral Lindman added that he would
not be astonished IL Secretary Of State
Lansing had more documents Of a SINH
lar nature In store. emanating from the
| European side and in good faith and
with the consent Of Great Britain for
| warded to German official representa-
tives In South America.
! Following a meeting OF tho Cabinet
the Foreign Office late to-day issued
statement defining the attitude of the
Government. The public showed great
interest In the announcement. Special
editions OF the evening papers were pur-
chased eagerly and crowds assembled
before the newspaper bulletin boards
1t is the general impression even
among the strongly opposed political
parties that Sweden acted in good faith
| in forwarding the German telegrams
but public opinion nevertheless is stirred
by the fact that code kilograms of Ger
man origin were permitted to be for
| warded without giving the Swedish Of
ficials the key to the code that they
might control the contents of the mes
sages.
The incident is expected to place the
late Cabinet in an unfavorable light and
also to have a great bearing on the gem
eral elections now in progress. In these
elections the Conservatives already have
lost seven seats and the Socialists and
Liberals are gaining steadily.
Statement by sweden.
The Foreign OfI1ce statement follows |:
The. Swedish Foreign Office has not
received any account regarding the
transmission Of the telegram mentioned
in the statements OF the Government Of
the United States and the Swedish Gov
ernment. therefore. Is unable at present
to determine what its position should be
on the questions opened up by these
statements
1T is. however, accurate 70 say that
just after the world war broke out the
Swedish Foreign Minister expressed the
opinion that he ought to transmit a
German telegram concerning the civil
population OF Kiao-Chow 'the former
German fortress in the Chinese penin-
sula of Shantung)
statements to the same effect were
made to the representatives Of both
helligercnt groups without there being
any question OF Sweden taking over rep
rcsentaton of any Powers interests
."As regards the United states in par
ticular. the United States Minister here
has this year in certain special cases
demanded and obtained permission to
transmit letters to and from Turkey and
at time when Turkey was not in a
state Of war with America and when
- Sweden had not yet taken over the pro-
lection of American interests
No Demand On sweden.
"In the summer OF 1915 tho wish was
eSpre.sed from the British side that the
transmission OF kilograms between Ger
many and North America should cease,
No formal demand was made but not
withstanding this tho Foreign Minister
accedcd to the wish. The Swedish Min
lister who was cognizant Of all the ne
1 gotiations was of the opinion that this
was no bar to the continued transmi sson
OF kilograms to neutral states other
than the United states and, therefore. to
Argentina Since then Sweden has con-
tinued to he the intermediary for COM
r,unications between Germany and the
Argentine
.rho ,oloyra,p mentioned I'm the Amer
lean statement was written in code, and
T., ,ran,n,itting il the Swedish Minister
90, h,, lint reason unable to docpher II.
| ,,-to,i,,r az, contonta ,,cre as reported IL
nnin, whirh tho first duty OF the
Sunaish Government must bo TO confirm.
AMI IFS next action must he to get an
oxn,,na,ior from Germany IL It be found
49,, any misuse has taken placc.
S'o,on viii also without regard To any
! rofarorc, made To her take measures
,o nroyept any rep,tition of the incident
~, ,nnIic,tion as Tn the cessation Of
,,, ,r,rsnission Of kilograms from Ger
m,ny IN tho Argentine Republic has
,,, ho,n maae either by the British or
An,.ricar Governments even now or at
anv earlier pcriod.
;The whole affair has onlv become
,.n,r,p To tho publir through the press
hu, In sn,tc OF this the wishes officially
: and semi-of,icially expressed by the in
tsrcs,ed partIee would Immediately have
heen acceded to-"
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