The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-24
TEUTON MOENY
In ARGENTINA
BEING USED TO FoMENT STRIKES
ON ALL SIDES.

Buenos Aires, JAN 22.-( Corresnon.
dence of The Associated Press)-Ba.
lief that German agitators still are
using large sums of German money
transferred from New York to fom.
ent revolutionary labor troubles in
Argentina and Uruguay is wide
spread in both countries. 1t has been
stated in government circles here
that Ambassador Naon was bringing
from Washington proofe of the &C.
tlvlty OF German agents in fostering
conspiracies against the government
of those two South American count
ries and Brazil
1t is widely belived here that both
Argentina and Uruguay have been
labor troubles and anarchistic out.
breaks solely for the purpose of in
terfering with any assistance they
are able to give the Entente Allies
and with the object of indirectly eff
fecting the Allied Cause by seriously
damaging the financial condition of
Allied industries which have been
established in these two republics.
Argentina officials have, received
official information regarding large
deposits of German funds in New
YORK which were transferred to
South America when the United
States was on the brink of war, it
being apparent that the money could
be used to better advantage in neu-
trail countries. There funds were sent
to Rio de Janeiro Montevideo. Lima.
Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires,
with the largest deposites centered
in the city. The Buenos Aires fund
alone at one time is said to have
reached balance of 25.OOO. 600
German banking houses here
1t is stated that amounts of this
money were spent for the purchase
of arms and ammunition for use in
Brazil and it is frankly admitted.
even in Brazil, that only the en-
trance of Brazil into the war put a
definite end to these plans.
While these plans were solely
military as far as Brazil was con-
cerned, the German agitators in Uru-
quay and Argentina have been con-
tent to spend their money. keeping
laborers and anarchists busy in their
work of destruction. 1t is belived
that most of the agitations have been
led by German agents who came
here from the United States and that
one serious railroad strike in Argen-
tina was engineered by the same
German subject who attempted
similar paralyation of traffic in the
United States.
The first serious outbreak of this
was the American packing houses in
Montevideo. This strike was sudden
and entirely unexpected and the
government was puzzled at the
length of time during which appar-
emily penniless laborers were able to
hold out in the unusual and unrea-
enable demands that had been franz
ed for them by the striks agitators.
These labor troubles soon spread
across the river into Argentina and
the country has not been free of
more or less serious uprisings among
laborers and anarchists for the last
four months. Property has been de-
stroyed, soldiers and innocent people
shot down and many acres crops
burned. In several instances, especi-
ally in the case of packing house
strikes, not one employee of the COM
panies affected has been represented
on the strike committees that visited
the managers.
There are evidences that Ambas-
sador Naon has kept in close touch
with the American Department of
State regarding Germanactivities in
Argentina and the people here were
looking forward to new exposures
when he met President Irigoyen on
returning from Washington.