The Swedish Foreign Office has issued an evasive statement in
which, after mentioning that it had transmitted American telegrams to Turkey as well as a German telegram about Kiao-chau, it denies-that we raised any objection in 1915 to the transmission of telegrams to any neutral country other than the United States, or that America has objected to messages to or from. Argentina. It professes ignorance of the telegrams published in Washington, and disavows responsibility for the contents of any code massages passing with its assistance to our. enemies. The Swedish Foreign Office proposes first to ask an explanation from Germany, and "in the event of it being proved that therehas been an abusetheneces- easy steps will be taken in order to obviate a recurrence." The first asp, we should have thought, would have been to apologies to Argentina for such a manifest and flagrantabuse of the Swedish Minister's privileges, to the detriment of Argentine. shipping.
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