The American Government on Saturday last made public the text
of three deciphered telegrams from Count Luxburg, the German -Charge d'Affaires at Buenos Aires, which had been de- spatched as Swedish official messages by the Swedish Legation in Argentina to the Swedish Foreign Office and thence to Berlin. In the first telegram, dated May 19th last, Count Luxburg stated that the agitation over the sinking of an Argentine ship by a German submarine had cooled. He added " I beg that the small steamers Oran ' and Guazo,' January 31st, 300 tons, which are now nearing Bordeaux, with a view to changing flags, may be spared if possible, or else sunk without a trace being left (spurlas rersenkt)." In the second message, of July 3rd, Count Luxburg reported that the Acting Minister of. Foreign Affairs,." who is a notorious ass and an Anglophile," had declared in a .secret Session of the Senate that Argentina must break off relations with Germany if she did not secure a promise that her ships should be spared. Count Luxburg, in a third message of July 9th, advised delay in replying to the Argentine protest, as a change of Ministry was probable. "As regards Argentine steameso, I recommend either compelling them to turn beck, sinking them without leaving any trace, or letting
thew through. They are all quite small."
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