The Swedish Incident.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 1372868, 15 September 1917, Page 5

The Swedish Incident.

EVIDENCE OF DUPLICITY.

[Aust and N.Z. Cable Association.] WASHINGTON, Sept, 13.

Sweden’s reply to the United States (respecting the irregular use of the Swedish Legation in Buenos Aires for the transmission of shipping intelligence through Sweden to Germany) is expected to be delivered verbally. It will correspond with the statement given out in Stockholm earlier this week. The reply apparently closes the case as far as the United States is concerned. Sweden is not under any obligation to give a full reply to the United States. The United States did not give the matter the status of a diplomatic incident. Sweden contends that Herr Lowen (Swedish Ambassador in Buenos Aires) transmitted Count Luxburg’s messages without knowing their contents, which were in a German code. It points out that other neutrals, including the United States, have acted similarly to the Central Powers.

WILD SCENES IN BUENOS AIRES. [Reuter Telegram.] BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 13. Many blocks of German business houses’have been burned by mobs. The wildest disorders prevail. Tho rioters set tiro to the German Club, one of the linost edifices in the city, and to the premises of tho newspaper "La Nacion. ” AN INTERCEPTED LETTER. SOME FURTHER REVELATIONS. (Received Friday, 11.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. - The State Department hag issued a statement showing that Von Eckhardt, the Gcyman Ambassador at Mexico City, recommended the German Government to decorate Crcnholm, the Swedish Charge-cVAffaires at that city. An intercepted letter from Eckhardt stated: — "Crcnholm since his arrival has been in undisguised sympathy with Germany. He is the only diplomat from whom information regarding our enemies can be obtained. He acts as intermediary in official and diplomatic intercourse from me to Germany, and goes personally to the telegraph office, sometimes late at night, to lodge telegrams. I recommend tho Crown to award him the Order of tho Second Class, but so as not to excite the enemies’ suspicion the decoration should not be announced till after the war.” ARGENTINE RECALLS ATTACHE. (Received Friday, 9 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Sept. 14. Captain Celery, Argentine’s naval attache at Berlin, has been recalled. It is believed he is concerned in the Swedish affair. A stock of German bombs was discovered yesterday among cargoes in ships at Narvick (Norway), the evident intention being that they should be " spurlos versenkt” (sunk without leaving a trace).