New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Plots
Stir the
Argentine
NaE Argentine Republic has be.
come strongly pro-Ally, accord.
: ing to the Buenos Ayres CORE

eoiiie sIrohgiy pro-Ally, accord
Ing to the Buenos Ayres CORE
spondent of 1.-THE Times. ..
London, but the Germans work tbsro
most industriously in subterranean fash.
ion, with two objects in view: First
building up their commercial stocks and
preparing for after-the-war trade do
spite the black list; and, second, incitir.
strikes and interfering with communica4
tions to prevent the going forward Of
supplies to the Allies. ''The Times" cor.
respondent says:
when brought into contact with the
everyday life of Buenos Ayres. il is d;fs-
cult to believe that one is breathing nan.
ttal atmosphere. Allied flags are eveyv-
where; practically the entire press reio;css
with open enthusiasm at the news os +be
Allied victory, and July ii was marked bv
gigantic procession, which passed alony
profusely beiagged streets, and which oc-
cupied more than half an hour in nass;,,
given point. To-day there are Argentine
girls in the streets of this capital sel,h,.
flowers for the benefit of the Allied
wounded. 1t is, believe, one of the first
experiments in the science of flag davs,
but it may be taken for granted that it will
not be the last
When the news first arrived here of tha
dramatic turn of fortune on the Marne and
the rolling back of the Hun forces / was
walking down the Celle Florida, the prin-
cipal street Of Buenos Ayres Newspaper
boys were shouting the latest developments
with enthusiasm, and at corner of a
street the events were being chalked up on
a large blackboard. It might have been I.
victory for the Argentine cause. As
matter of fact, every Argentine in that
crowded street'-and with sufficiently good
reason-~was convinced on that point. They
clapped each, other on the back, and waved
their hats, and on every side were faces
that We're quite honestly radiant.
ut was only one of innumerablc episodes
OF the kind. In Buenos Ayrcs, at all events,
1t is difficult to realize that one is in the
midst Of people who are officially neutral.
This applies, at all events, to the ethics Of
ordinary life and to the surface of the
public existence. But the German is here
At~odd spots his traces arc discernible ever
above ground. His principal club, bu,gec
and gutted BY justly indignant crowd
has been rebuilt; here and there, but
rarely, you may catch cautiously spoken
phrases in German. and at three or four
street corners arc the sellers of the Ger
man newspapers, who drawl out--one
imagines shamefacedly ly-the words Tage-
blatt and La Union They are plain feat
ured gentry, OF the type that is usually as
sociated With the caricaturcs Of the Ger
man race. So much SO that one wonders
why their employers arch experts in the
art of propaganda have not chosen repre-
sentataves of a more sympathetic exterior.
Nevertheless, they are heroic in sordd
fashion. For they suffer from q marked
lack OF popularity, and their voices persist
with fatigucd sound Nevertheless, they
are there, and they are to be reckoned
with III the life of buenos Ayrcs.
"ln Buenos Ayres-whatever may be the
case in some of the outer proyinces--there
is very little more than this that meets the
eye of the casual stroller through the
streets. Nevertheless, the German is heFe
in his thousands. He is working ike
mole, aud his energy is none the less greas
for being subterranesn. His policy mas
two main ends-to obtain by hook or BY
crook those goods which the operation o.
the black list is supposed to bar from hls
doors, and to destroy the internal commS-
nications of the country in the hope shs'
the supplies of meat and grain may De pre-
vented from leaving the Argentine shores
and thus fail to reach the deposs OF sne
Allies in France.
"in the former cndeavor it is neceSsa"
for the German to employ d certain pu'''
Der Of neutral agents, the goods psss'1e
from one hand to another until it IS lss'
sonabe to suppose that their tracks hass
been lost by those bona fide British sp'
neutral firms to whom the goods were ~"
signed in the first instance. That Me .
tempts have been fairly successful IS =
tested by the regrettable fact that many
! the German warehouses that in tnsep
should be empty are only too amply s'oeass
with the goods that enable them TO e'A
tinue their businesses in being. Agsa's
this it must be said that the net IS 0e'ss
drawn tighter, and that the difieulsles Z
smuggling goods through its mcshss -
/ steadily increasing.
"In the latter attempt the ADVANTAGES u y
tn a eartain pciut have naturally IAN Mr.