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The Brattleboro Daily Reformer
Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont
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Sweden's legation in Argentina acted as a secret means of communication between the German charge in Buenos Ayres and the Berlin foreign office, transmitting information of the sailing of Argentine ships and directions for their destruction by submarines. Official despatches from Count Luxburg were made public by the state department, revealing how Germany used Sweden in machinations in Argentina during a diplomatic controversy over submarine destruction of Argentine ships.
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News of Sailing of Argentine Vessels Was Sent to Berlin in This Way.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. - How Sweden's legation in Argentine acting as a secret means of communication between the German charge in Buenos Ayres and the Berlin foreign office transmitted information of the sailing of ships and directions for their destruction by submarines was revealed today in official despatches made public by the state department. Copies of official despatches sent to the Berlin foreign office by Count Luxburg, the German charge in Buenos Ayres, in cipher here was made public by Secretary Lansing without comment as to how they fell into the hands of this government or any indication as to what is to come as the result of the disclosure.
Besides revealing the means in which Germany used Sweden in her machinations in Argentina the despatches show how the German charge at the time Argentina was having a critical diplomatic controversy with Germany over submarine destruction of her ships was sending through the Swedish legation information of the sailing of certain vessels with recommendations that they be sunk "without leaving any trace," and in other despatches was informing his government how to regard Argentina's protest against the destruction of her shipping.
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Buenos Ayres
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Sept. 8
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recommendations that vessels be sunk without leaving any trace
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Sweden's legation in Argentina acted as a secret means of communication between the German charge in Buenos Ayres and the Berlin foreign office, transmitting information of the sailing of Argentine ships and directions for their destruction by submarines. Official despatches from Count Luxburg were made public by the state department, revealing how Germany used Sweden in machinations in Argentina during a diplomatic controversy over submarine destruction of Argentine ships.