Luxburg
COUNT KARL, German Chargé d'Affaires at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1917, during the Great War. In the summer of that year, he sent secret dispatches to Berlin through the Swedish legation via Stockholm, which were made public by Secretary Lansing of the United States Department of State. These dispatches urged that certain Argentine ships should be "spurlos versenkt"-destroyed without a trace. The publication of the documents resulted in the dismissal of Count Luxburg from Argentina, and the virtual entrance of Argentina into the war.
Luxburg was also Minister to Uruguay, and on his dismissal from Argentina, he asked for a passport to Montevideo instead of to Berlin. LUXEMBOURG PALACE (Paris), famous for its architecture, art galleries, and gardens. The building was begun in 1616 and completed in 1620 by Salomon de Brosse for Marie de Medici. In 1835-41 the main body of the structure was doubled in size and a magnificent hall was built for the House of Peers, later occupied by the Prefecture of the Seine and since by the Senate. Always a royal or public picture gallery, the paintings are mostly by French French artists, American painters being next. The main structure fronts on a Court of Honor measuring 300 by 360 feet inclosed on sides and front by low wings. The gar dens, among the most noted in France, are the only Renaissance gardens in Paris. Originally laid out by De Brosse, they were nearly stripped in the Revolution, but restored in 1801. LUXEMBURG a LUZON