Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-14
MOREPROOFS
Of TEUTON|C
PERI F|DY ARE
GIVEN PUBLIC.
State Department Publishes a
Letter From German Am
bassador to Mexico Involv-
ing Swedish Minister There.
CBy Review Leased Wire.)

(By Review Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-Another
chapter to the story of German in
trigue in neutral countries and among
neutral diplomats was revealed to-
night by Secretary Lansing in the
form of letter to the imperial chan
cellor from the notorious Won Eek
hardt, the German minister at Mexico
City, TO whom the intercepted Zim-
mermann note was addressed. 1t dis
closes that Folke Clonholme, the
Swedish minister ~ Mexico, was de-
pended upon by the German diplomat
to furnish information from the hos
tile camp" an dto transmit communi-
cations to Berlin and that Won Eek
hardt wanted him rewarded by a
secret award from the kaiser Of the
order of the crown of the second
class
Letter Is Old
This letter was written March s,
1916, and apparently has been in the
ment for long time. 1t was made
public without comment, shedding
light upon the methods of another
Swedish diplomatic representative in
this hemisphere at a lime when the
United States and her allies are await
ing with interest Sweden's explana-
ton to Argentina of the conduct OF
mel minister at Buenos AIRES wh6I
transmitted the German sink without
leaving a trace" dispatches.
CronhoIne Dismissed
Baron Akerhielm, Swedish charge
here, said tonight in response to a
query that Cronholme was dismissed
from the diplomatic service last jan
uary. He would not discuss the cause,
but there was no intimation that it
was in any way connected with Cron-
homes relations with the Germans
Called at Department
Baron Akerhielm called at the state
department during the day to inform
Secretary Lansing that he had receiv-
ed from his government the statement
already given to The public at Stock
holm explaining that Sweden had for
warded dispatches from the German
minister at Buenos Aires 20 Berlin
in German code without knowledge or
their contents. He did not leave a
copy of the statement. II is assumed
that the Stockholm foreign office will
not address any communication to the
American government on the subject.
The departments translation of the
Won Eckhardt letter follows:
Imperial Legation, Mexico
ITO His Excellency, the Imperial
Chancellor:
cronhoIme Sympathetic
Herr Folke Cronholme, the Swed-
ish charge daffairs here since his ar
rival here has not disguised hIs sympa-
thy for Germany and has entered into
close relations with this legation. He
i sthe only diplomat through whom
information from hostile camp can
be obtained. Moreover, he acts as in
termediary for official diplomatic in
tercourse between this legation and
your eXcellency. In the course of this,
he is obliged - go personally each
time to the telegraph office, not sell
dom late at night, in order TO handle
the kilograms. Herr Cronholme was
formerly al Peking and at Toxic and
was responsible for the preliminary
arrangements which have to be made
for the representation of his country
in each case. Before he came out here
he should have been in charge of the
consulate at Hamburg Herr Cron-
holme has not got a Sweden but only
a Chinese order at present. | venture
to submit 70 your excellency the ad-
visibility of laying before his majesty,
the emperor. the name of Herr Cron-
holme. with a view to crown order or
the second class being bestowed upon
him.
Secrecy Desirable
at would perhaps be desirable. in
order not to excite the enemy's
suspicious to treat with secrecy the
matter of the issue of the patents un-
til the end of the war, should the de
cision be favorable to my suggestion.
This would mean that the matter
would be communicated to no one but
the recipient and his government and
even TO them only under the seal of
secrecy, while the ceremony of be-
n