The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-27
HIDES PROOF OF
SWEDEN'S Guilt
Argentine suppresses New
Exhibits in Luxburg
Case Naon Recalled.

Washington, Oct. 27-New and i'm
portant disclosures of secret German
activities and Swedish German col
fusion are in the possession of Secre-
tary Lansing. They are being with
held from the PUBLIC because the Ar
gentine government, presumably I'M
der direct pressure from Germany,
will not consent to their publication
Ron1ulo S. Naon, Argentine Ambas-
sador here, who sent disclosures to
his government with the expectation
that they would be published, is re-
ported to have been recalled.
1t appears evident here that Ger
man agents working in the guise Of
pro-neutrals and peace propagandists
in Beunos Aires have succeeded tenn
porarily at 4eaGt. in persuading Off :
cials of the Argentine government to
enter into so-called conspiracy of
suppression with respect to the tele-
grams.
The new disclosures, 1t is said,
show an entirely new phase of Swed-
ish-German collision not brought out
| in the first Count Luxburg letters,
| which revealed that Count Luxburg,
German Minister to Argentina, had
sent his famous sspurlos versenkt'
| messages to Berlin by means Of the
diplomatic cipher Of the Swedish lie.
cation in Buenos Aires
l. While the messages were sent to
| the Stockholm Foreign Office it has
been denied in Sweden that the For
eign ONCE knew the reason or the
contents Of the message. It has never
been admitted that they were for
warded to Berlin for Count Luxburg
The explanation given was that the
Swedish Legation had been imposed
upon by Germany. and the Swedish
Foreign ONCE even went through the
farce proceedings Of asking an apol-
oy from Berlin.
| It is revealed now that the Swedish
Foreign Office transmitted messages
for Germany hack to Count Luxburg.
The whole conspiracy between the
Swedish and German governments is
absolutely exposed in the series of
new kilograms. The contention that
the Swedish government did not
| know that the secret messages were
/ going to Germany is apparently dis
4 posed OF because the Swedish gov
eminent all the time, it would seem,
was conspiring to get the replies from
Germany safely back to Count Lux
Fburg.
/ The disclosures are in some respects
the most important made so far, a.
they show the extent to which the
Swedish Foreign Office at Stockholm
conspired with Germany against tbs
Entente Allies and neutral countrie.
including Argentina and the United
i States
Secretary Lansing naturally knows
the contents of these decided ciphel
kilograms. Both President Wilso,
and Secretary Lansing have emphasiz
ed the fact that this method has beer
in vogue with the imperial govern
ment of Germany. The action of of
hcials in Argentina initiating this Sc
J cret German method Of deceiving thei
own people naturally is not indorse,
here.
When the government turned owe
to Ambassador Naon decided tele
grams which passed between the Der
lin Foreign Office and Count Luxbur
1t was fully expected by diplomat
here that arrangements would b
| made for their simultaneous puhlica
ton in Buenos Ayres and Washing
ton. Mr.. Naon expected this. He /
understood to have felt that in vie,
of the nature of the messages Ger
/, many and the government of Swede
: should both be exposed as extensivel
e as possible.
: When the kilograms reached Bueno
3 Ayres there was at first a. period O
! silence as to the question of maxim
!, them public. Mr.. lansing naturall
!, would not take steps to give thet
: out, excepting with the permission q
Argentina. But days and weeks hav
lnow passed with no action by tn
Argentine Foreign. Office 1t appear
y that certain Influences in Buenc
e Ayres have persuaded the govern
q n,ent there to keep the telegrams cor
It lcealed.
The reported recall of Annbassadc
: Naon is linked by diplomats here wit
this German-Argentine intrigue M
! Naon has made many friends hel
because his synpathies appeared 1
be plainly for the cause of civtlizs
8 ton But whether he represented tt
ideals of the Arg atine president
= 1.-THE Argentine Foreign Office has bee
o open to discussion. There has bee
no doubt he represented the ideals
lie Argentine people.
u There LIS a powerful pro-neutral pa.
ty in 4 -gentina, led by Indalecio G.
mez, former Minister of the Interio
is and Mariana Demarier, speaker of Il
y House. They are not -Germa
u but are pro--eutral and thereto
II have become useful agents to &c
many.
= Count Luxburg Isl believed to
g confined to Maria Garcia islam
which virtually amounts to his il
is lprisoNment.
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