STEADY TRAFFIC IN* MESSAGES '•■■ • ALLBQEt).

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14439, 27 October 1917, Page 3

STEADY TRAFFIC IN MESSAGES ALLEGED.

■ '■•■'-. A^BXiCO OITY, Sept. 27. It iis stated on good authority that an investigation her« sho\Ks ! that the passage of messages m German pode between the German Legation and Berlin by way of tlie Swedish Legation and Stockholm, a5 •revealed. recently by -Secretary of State Lansing, extended as far back as thp ewriy part of 1916. It is also stated that these messages -were' not confined to despatches from Heanriob yon Eckhardt, German Minister to Berlin, but that they consisted m! part of messages from the Berlin Foreign Office, which were transmitted throligh the Swedish Legat'on to von Bakhardt, and were answered by thiß sanie route.

5 WASHINGTON; Sept. 27. Ambassador Naon of Argentine was an early caller at the' 'State Department today, but both he and officials there refjised to discuss, the visit. '' There was littb doubt^ that the Ambassador sa.w Secretary Lansing m connection Tviti* some 400 despatchea passing through the Swedish Legation m Argentina, which' are belieyed to showfurther evidence of Tw Count Ltixbxirg, the'' German Minister, m Buenos Aires, used the neutral Legation 'to communicate'secretly with Berlin.