GERMANY'S POLICY OF PEACEFUL PENETRATION.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 11 September 1917, Page 6

GERMANY'S POLICY OF PEACEFUL PENETRATION.

»ATIONAfc DUHNMF INVALID SWEDISH x ; MINISTER. . , , EXPOSURE OF .GERMANY'S SYSTEM OP CABLE CONTROL. (Btutor's Tolejramj.) m ' ~ . WASHINGTON, September 9. lhe Swedish Minister hen is thunderstruk at the disclosure* and declares that it is improbable that the Swedish- Minister at Buenos Aires knew the contents of the despatches otherwise he would not have allowed them to go forward. i ;: T M^ isll^ommissioners, .who, arc visiting the'uriited 1 States ' ; o arrange for food, shipments, are shocked at the disclosures, and ' have telegraphed to the Foreign Offee for an explanation " ■ ■ The Swedish, Legation officials believe that the Buenos Aires ' Legation was duped, beeouse the Ambassador there was an in- ' valid, and:was ; unable to attend to business personally • (Austin and New Zealand Cable Association and. Reuter.)

nnlJ D y r '■.- LONDON » September 9. line Hon. Robert Lansing's revelations caused a sensation in Britain. It appears that the Foreign Office at Stockholm has been acting as a telegraph office for the German re gU : arly transmitting cypher cables as Swedish Government messages' m'ing. the past three years. Thus Gorman Ministers in various oreign countries had free telegraphic communication with Berlin by handing their messages to the Swedish Minister, who signed and despatched them to Stockholm, whence they were sent to Berlin, The British Government learned of the ixitoce of the system during the spring of 1915, and told the Swedish Government that unless it ceased it would be necessary to place restrictions on -Swedish cypher telegrams using British-controlled cables The Swedish Minister on London promised that the practice should oea»e, and.similar assurances were given at Stockholm bv the Foreign Mm.ster in August 1915. Sweden admitted that at one toe ten, ~ have been ground for complaint/ but nothin, 0 1 n mU f f ° r S ° me mont,w ' ml ™ ll(l not oecnr g«n.. One of Count Luzburgs deciphered, messages indicated a an assurance had been given by the Argentine Government A g n mo ships would only dear to Las Palmas. This shows at the pretended nnmumty to Argentine ships, accorded with a «Howo magnanimity by Germany, was a pure farce, be.aJn nmunity wa, secured by Argentina undertaking that o Arg t •ships would be found in the. war zone.