Republican farmer., 1918-03-29
j. S. GAS SHELLS KILL TEUTONS'
SENATOR LODGE ATTACKED
GERMAN MONEY
STILL IN USE IN
SOUTH AMERICA

Buenos Aires, March 22.-(Corre-
spondence of The Associated Press.)-
Belief that German agitators still are
using large sums of German money
transferred from New York to foment
revolutionary labor troubles in Ar
gent1na and Uruguay is widespread
In both countries. 1t has been stated
in government circles here that Am
bassador Naon was bringing from
Washington proofs of the activity of
German agents in fostering conspira-
cies against tho governments of those
two South American countries and
Brazil.
It is widely believed here that both
Argentina and Uruguay have been
kept in continual turmoil through la
Dor 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 affecting
the Allied cause by seriously damag-
ing the financial condition of Allied
industries which have been estab-
hshed in these two republics.
Al SCAhL4llC O11lS1cIo nave 1CSC4NOO O1-
| fetal information regarding large de-
posits 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 bet
ter advantage in neutral countries.
These funds were sent to Rio de
Janeiro, Montevideo, Lima, Santiago
de Chile and Buenos Aires, with the
largest deposits centered in this city.
The Buenos Airs fund alone at one
time is said to have reached a bal
ance of 25O0O,000 marks, distributed
among several German banking houses
here.
It is stated that amounts Of this
money were spent for the purchase of
arms and ammunition for use in Bra
iii and it is frankly admitted, even
in Brazil, that only the entrance of
Brazil into the war put a definite end
to these plans.
While these plans were solely mil
itary as far as Brazil was concerned,
the German agitators in Uruguay and
Argentina have been content to spend
their money keeping laborers and an
archists busy in their work of de-
struction. It is believed here 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 Argentina
was engineered by the same German
subject who attempted a similar par
a1yzation of traffic in the United
States.
The first serious outbreak of this
kind was at 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 ap-
arently penniless laborers were able
Ito hold out in the unusual and IN
reasonable demands that had been
framed for them by the strike agi-
Itators
These labor troubles soon spread
across the river into Argentina and
the country has not been free of more
or less serious uprisings among labor
Iers and anarchists for the last fou1
months Property has been destroyed
soldiers and innocent people shot
, down and many acres of crops
burned. In several instances, espe-
cially in the case of packing house
strikes, not one enplpye of the COM
panies affected has been represented
on the strike committees that visited
1.-THE managers.
There are evidences that AmbaS'
sador Naon has kept in close touch
with the American Department Of
State regarding German activities II
Argentina and the people here were
looking forward to new exposures
when he met President Irigoyen OF
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