15 SEPTEMBER 1917, Page 2

- But the part played by the.Swedials Foreign Office in

this affair is certainly surprising, and calls for much more explanation than has.. been „offered from Stockholm. The Swedish Minister at Buenos Aires may have been culpably lax in sending his Garman colleague's cipher messages as his,owu. But the real culprit is the Swedish Foreign Office, which received these mesaages and trans- mitted them to Germany, thus making itself, wittingly or unwittingly, an accomplice in the foulattacks of the enemy submarines on Allied and neutral merchantmen. The offence is all the greater because the Swedish Government in July and August, 1915, promised our Minister not to send or reoeive.telegrams on Garman accaunt. This promise has not been kept.