WARTIME COUP

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 10

WARTIME COUP

DEATH OF BOY-ED

HOW HE WAS EXPOSED

(From "the Post's' Representative.) 'NEW YOEIv, loth October. How a great wartime coup was effected by an Australian in the United States is recalled by the death of Captain Boy-Ed, naval attach^ to the German Embassy at Washington in the early period, of the war. He was the late John Eathom, at that time editor of the "Providence Journal." Mr. Bathom was chiefly instrumental in exposing Boy-Ed and his in anti-British activities, Captain yon Papen, the military attache. His publication of articles in the "Journal," which were widely copied throughout the United States, did much to provoke slow American wrath against the German propagandists. Seal evidence against the pair of Washington plotters' was found in the confession of a German reservist, one Stegler, who said that Boy-Ed was the director of a'ring whose business was to get \German reservists into England, where they would act as spies. This was done by the issue of • false passports, which guaranteed; that the spies were reputable American citizens. Carl Hans Lody, one of the most notorious of German spies, was thus enabled to reach England where his career was cut short by a firing squad. Boy-Ed's activities, >of which the lato Mr. BatlK became aware by somo means which were not divulged, gradually brought demands for his recall, which became intense at the time the Lusitania was sunk, for Boy-Ed lacked the good sense to remain silent in this crisis. In 1919 Boy-Ed wrote a book about the war, called "The Plotter," and in this his wartime experiences in Washington were recounted. He expressed a desire to revisit America, but the Federal Government declined to allow him to enter, though his wife, whom he married in 1920, returned to her native land. She was the daughter of the lato Bishop Mackay-Smitli, of the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania.