The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08
As Undesirable Citizens
BY Uncle Sam.
BOTH GET WALKING PAPERS
Mass OF Circumstantial Eyi.
dence Has Been Gathered
Against The ENJOYS.
WILSON APPROVES DISMISSAL

tOHs LEU ~ It
date withdrawal of Capt. Karl Boy
ed and Capt Franz Won Papen, re
spectively naval and military at
taches of the German embassy, has
been requested by the State depart.
ment
In making the formal announce.
ment OF this action Secretary Ian
sing said the attaches had rendered
themselves persona non grata to the
United States Government by i'm
proper activities in connection with
naval and military matters.
THE Secretary acted with full ap-
prevail of President Wilson, who is
understood to have determined that
the United States shall be rid Of for
eign officials who make themselves
obnoxious by activity harmful to the
nations best interests.
The State department made it's re-
quest three days ago, through Count
Won Bernstorff, the German ambas-
sador, and the announcement of the
fact was withheld as a matter of
courtesy to Germany and to prevent
the charge being made that the jury
trying the warship supply conspira-
tors of the Ham burg-American line
in New York had in sany way been
influenced In reaching verdict. No
reply has been received but none is
necessary. 1t is taken for granted
the ambassador will order the at
taches away as soon as he has ex-
changed communications with Ber-
lin.
Complaints against Won Papen
and BOy-ed are accumulative, dating
back to the early days of the Euro
pean war. The case is peculiar, not
being capable of legal proof, con-
sists of accumulation of suspicious,
circumstances and conditions which
connected them with attempts to
violate the United States neutrality
laws.
Secretary Lansing is understood
to have given consideration to the
attempts to supply the German war
ships with coal, proyisioss and am
and although no absolute
proof Of completely of either of the
men in the passport frauds was
reached by the State department, a
mass of testimony accumulated to
place them under the gravest suspi-
cion.
Won Papen's principal offenses
consisted in sending a report TO the
German war ofiice by Archibald and
the interest he is said to have had
In fomenting strikes in munition
factories. II was Won Papen, who in
4 letter taken from Archibald when
he British authorities searched him.
made reference to these idlotic
Yankees"
Capt. Boy-ed's activities in the
United States since the war began
rave been the subject OF close atten-
ion by the State department and
he department of justice. Several
lines it had been broadly limited that
he American Government might in
innate to Germany that the opera
ions of her naval attache were OBJ
ectionable. with the inevitable sug-
;estion that his connection with the
Embassy should be terminated. Each
ime, however, the threatened action
anne to nothing. While the State
department. consistently refused to
liscuss the captains case. the Ger
nan embassy intimated that it had |
eason to believe he had done moth
ng for which he should be censur-
d.
Capt. Boy-ed's first activities
'hich attracted the attention OF tho
government were in connection with /
be misuse OF American passports TO ,
'erman reseryists seeking to slip ,
through the allied lines to Join their |
rm'es. Some Of the men IN con-
ection with whose cases the cap
aims name was mentioned are now
CRYING terms in Federal penitenti- /
ries.