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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY : Evidence of a German plot to align the nations of South America against the United States is revealed in telegrams sent to Berlin by the notorious Count Luxburg, former German charge in Argentina, made public yesterday by the State Department. An indication of the means used by Count .Luxburg to evade detection in comunicating with his government is found in one dispatch, where reference is made to his fear that the "secret wire" had been discovered. Another refers to an interruption of his wire in Mexico.- In one of the messages, of which there are some forty, Luxburg "reports that he induced President Irigoyen of Argentina to enter into a secret agreement with Chili and Bolivia, a "mutual approachment for projection versus North America," and did his utmost to have Peru included in such an agreement. What purports to be an outline of the kaisers much-advertised "Christinas peace terms" has reached Washington through the same neutral diplomatic channels which earlier in the week received information to support intimations from abroad that a new peace offer was coming. In the main the terms as described follow the lines of those said to have been written by German foreign minister Von Kuehlniann last summer. At that time they were denounced as having been written purely for political purposes. With Petrograd under martial law, the Bolsheviki war office is making preparations for the city to stand siege in the event the counter revolutionists are able to draw near. The excuse given for the declaration of- martial law was the disorders arising from the looting of wine cellars by the lawless element, but advices received in Copenhagen yesterday said that trenches were being dug several miles from the outskirts of the city and that artillery was being mounted where it could sweep the main approaches. Complete restoration of the territories taken by the enemy, together with compensation, was demanded by Premier Lloyd George yesterday, in explaining the war aims of the government. The premier told the British nation that Germanys submarine "war has failed. He delivered a speech on the war situation in the House of Commops. He stated that the margin of shipping losses is growing less and less. The premier said future worlds peace could only be secured by crushing German militarism. The forward gun crew of an American liner reaching an Atlantic port yesterday destroyed a submarine the morning after leaving a British port on its voyage, according to stories told by passengers. Major General Hugh L. Scott, former chief of staff of the army, who was a. passenger, is said to have stood behind the gunners during the action and complimented them on their markmenship. The submarine was about 700 yards distant, said the passengers. Bank robbers chopped and burned their way into the cash vault of the Summit State Bank early yesterday and escaped with 35,000, the pay roll of the Argo plant of the Corn Products Refining Company. The police are .looking for two men, described by a Summit citizen who saw them In front of the bank. One was short and the other tall. The robbers overlooked S,000 in addition to the 5,000 loot they escaped with. The Russian Bolsheviki have given the allies two mouths in which to join in the "general peace" they -propose, according to a speech by Leon Trotzky, foreign minister, which leached Stockholm yesterday. ,
