THE SWEDISH SCANDAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3192, 17 September 1917, Page 5

THE SWEDISH SCANDAL

COUNT LUXBURG LITERALLY KICKED OUT OF BUENOS AIRES GIVEN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO LEAVE Buenos Air.es, September 14. Count .Luxburg has been given twentyfour hoare to leave the country. The newß resulted in great demonstrations in the streets, tho mob crying "Death to Luxburg! Down with Germany!" The crowd at'tempted to storm the Legation. Count Luxburg- was arrested, and demanded police protection. The houso is now strongly guarded. Luxburg is going to Chile immediately—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LUXBUEd MAT GO TO PARAGUAY. (Eec. September 16, 5.5 p.m.) Buenos Aires, September 15. Count Luiburg proposes to remove to Paraguay, to which ho has been accredited, but it is doubtful whether Paraguay will favourably receive him. There has been a further outbreak of rioting on a considerable scale at Buenos Aires.—Aus.N.U. Cable Assn. A VIGOROUS CLEAN-UP. New York, September 11. The First Secretary at the Swedish Foreign Office has been dismissed.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. SENSATION IN GERMANY " "SINK LUXBUR-G, 'WITHOUT A TRACE.'" (Ree. September 16, 5.5 p.m.) • Amsterdam, September 15. The German newspapers have published Count Lusburg's telegrams, which have caused a sensation and some dissatisfaction, especially in Socialist circles. The "Vossische Zeitung" says: "The best thing we can do is to sink Luxburg' 'without a trace.'" A telegram from Berlin slates that the Foreign Secretary has asked Argentina to grant safo conduct to enable Count Luxburg to travel to Berlin in order to explain tho telegrams—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. . ASSURANCES TO BRITAIN VIOLATED STATEMENT BY LORD ROBERT . ' CECIL. (Rec. September 16, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 15. Lord Robert Cecil (Under-Secretary for. Foreign Affairs); interviewed on the Swedish affair, said that Sweden's real impropriety was in sending cipher messages for Germany. Sweden had broken the assurances she had given Britain in 1915. -He hoped that further revelations would not show'that Germany had extensively used Swedish diplomats in the same way she had done' in Argentine.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE EXPOSUrTiN MEXICO HEATED DENIALS BY VON ECKHARBT. • Mexico City, September H, Herr von Eckhardt, in replying to inquiries, heatedly exclaimed: "The news is damned uninteresting to me." He denied that he recommended Crehhohn's decoration for services to Germany. Crcnholm is no longer. Swedish Charge d'Affaires, but is still in. Mexico City. He has refused to be interviewed. Herr Gylfe and Herr Andonberg, Ci-enholm s successors, profess ignorance of (he entire matter, as also does the Mexican MihSecretary.for Foreign. Affairs.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable As'sn. . AMERICA'S ATTITUDE SATISFIED IF EXPOSURES ACT AS DETERRENT. . Washington, September 11. It is indicated that the United States Government will bo satisfied over the Swedish incident if tho Von Eckhardt and Luxburg ' affairs serve as a. ruling governing the conduct of Swedish officials generally, thus eliminating German inlri»uing from the American Conlin-ents.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable- Assn. GERMAN SHIPS IS) BY URUGUAY (Rec. September IG, 11.55 p.m.) London, September 16. Lloyd's reports that the Uruguay Goveminent has taken, all the. German .ships that were sbettering at Monte Video and landed the" crews.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Eeuter.