Grand Forks daily herald., 1915-08-18
inner SECRETS Of ], s. GOVERNMENT
DETAILS TO THE GERMAN OFFICIALS
investigation Under Way at Washington May Bring
Forth Startling Facts Bearing Upon Activities
of the Secret Service of Berlin

I inston sent to the admiralty in Berlin
secret messages with regard to the DO.
ation OF that ship and her course.
Code MeesAgcs ON Lusitania?
some weeks ago the government,
having recatved from the Providence
Journal all the wireless material
ing the period covering the week prior
to the Lusitania's sailing and the day
OF her destruction. discovered q num-
Der OF code messages which it ts be-
!teved contained direct information
from Captain Boy-Ed Of the German
embassy to the German admiralty
with regard to the route and daily po-
sition of the Lusitania.
1t ID understood that this informa-
ton came. to the German embassy
! through spy, or spies, in the office Of
the Cunard company in New York
City. The Journal cannot state to
what extent the government has yeri-
fed these suspicious. but it is a fact
that within two weeks the government
legal authorities on International law
in New York City to give their opin-
lon as to whether such acts. II proved.
would constitute either piracy or mur-
These lawyers have returned briefs
to the government which take exactly
the same ground. They argue that
tions as outlined it would be impossi-
BILE to bring any charge Of piracy, but
that any person spsrsons. whether
protected under ordinary circum-
stances by their seahassy relationship
OF Or not: g who haA IN nscFnatio to
the destruction Of the Lusitanla were
l tyA1t AsS~$
accessories before the fact.
Many Messages to Germany.
| Between April 80. the day before
the Lusitania sailed, and MAY 7. the
day on which she was sunk, q great
many wireless messages were sent to
and from Sayville for and by the Ger.
man embassy and Captain Boy-Ed
personally. Several Of these were in
the code which the German ambassa-
dor is permitted to use and Of which
an alleged key has been given to the
navy department. But great many
others. particularly to and from Cap
tain Boy-Ed and the banks and busi-
ness houses, which have also been
used to convey code, were most mys-
terious in their character.
The Journal has many times made
very careful search Of all its wire
less messages between these dates. in
cluding those mentioned, but has been
unable to discover what the govern
ment has apparently discovered from
the copies furnished to it by the Jour-
nal-that some Of these messages re-
ferred specifically to the destruction
of the Lusitania and gave her exact
route. as well as information with re-
gard to her position from day to day.
April 30, the day before the sailing
OF the Lusitania, d number Of meg
sages were sent from Nauen to the
German embassy and from the embas-
! sy to the German government with re-
gard to certain ciphers alleged to have
been sent by the ambassador in pre-
vious messages, but which, as mat
ter of fact, had never been sent. The
Journals files fail to reveal any such
numbers as those indicated or any at
tempt to reply to- such messages. In
1 other words. the German forelsuk Of
flee in asking for alleged repeats OF
previous messages was really sending
code messages in disguise.
Brings in Capt. Boy-Ed.
May wireless message arrived
at Sayville signed 'Ernestine' and adj
dressed to 'Nordmann, Room 8O9, II
Broadway This message said: Has
father received letter seventeen?' The
4 .Nordmann' referred to is the name
Capt. Boy-ed uses In New York and
the address given Is his secret room
! May Nauen sent to sayville a
service message marked No. "a, pur-
ported to give list Of messages re-
ceived by 1t complete on the previous
day. Among these appear the phrase,
'275 ambassador 284 bredow.
Ten minutes later wireless mes
sage was received from the German
embassy, stating: we win repeat
wireless message No. % II stili neces-
sary;' ~. ..,, ! !. - -
was sent. But the fact that message
No. 81 posed as service message is
conclusive proof that the German gov
ernment was using this method of
4 coding messages in order to evade the
4 censors
May 8, q mass Of wireless material
addressed to the German embassy
from the foreign once transmitted
what purported to be several news
4 messages with regard 70 the progress
4 Of the war. None OF these were ever
given TO the newspapsrs and It . be-
lieved that all Of them were code
\ messages. 5J;.
Tells Of Munluons on Liuee.
4 At 2:10 the mofning Of May n, the
day the Lusitania va lDunk, SayYtlle,
for some unknown f1aSon, went over
the entire program or the day before,
but In doing 30 mixed up its messages
n . most mysterious 10y and sent no
two of these in prapssf esquencs. An
ressnding all the mS SsAsss Of 10 pre-
yious day, Sayville 10 ,repeak1d tho
messages OF May - pArt Of Nay Z,
4 none Of which rep69tf1o1o haA ever.
been asked for by &huon.
In addition to ~ atntIas uuoteA &
grsst many other ctde messa6 50 pass-