WARTIME COUP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 424, 15 November 1930, Page 8

WARTIME COUP

DEATH OF BOY-ED HOW HI-: WAS EXPOSEU NEW YORK, Oct. 15. How a great war-time coup was effected by an Australian in the United States is recalled bv the death of Captain Bov-Ed. naval attache to the German Embassy at Washington in the early period of the war. He was the late dohti linthom, at that time editor of the “ESovidence Journal.” Mr linthom was chiefly instrumental in exposing Buy Ed ami his partner in antiBritish activities. Captain von I’apen, the military attaclie. His publication ul artcles in tho “Journal,” which were widely copied throughout the l/niled States, did much to jirovuku slow American wrath against the German propagandists. lie'll cvideni’O against the pair nt Washington plotters was found

in the confession of a German reservist. one Sleglcr, who said that Boy-Ed was the director of a ring whose busi-

ness was to get German reservists into I jiglaml, where they would act as spies. This was done by 1 he issue of false passports. which guaranteed that the spies were reputable American citizens. ( arl Hans laxly, one of the most notorious of German spies, was thus enabled to reach Ungland where his career was cut short by a tiring squad, Bov-Ed’s activities, of which the late Mr Rathom became aware by some 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

In .1919 Boy-Ed wrote a book about ‘the war. called “The Plotter,” ami in this his wartime experiences in Washington were recounted. He expressed a desire to revisit America, but the Federal Government declined Io allow him to enter, though his wtH*. whom he married in 1920, returned to her native land. She was the daughter of the late Bishop Mackay-Smith, of Die Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania.