The sun., 1916-10-26
WILLEHAD U.BOAT
AID, SAY LETTERS
"TO Act Within Three Mile
Limit as Telegraph Station"
Writes German.

i.osooN. Oct. sb-rhe following two
Sstters. intercepted on their way TO Ger
many. were made public here to-day.
The first one. from Max -. +61
Dast Eighth street. South Boston. ad-
dressed to his brother. said:
DEAR GrsrAvr-Ths wiliehad sailed
to-day. am TO say here til the end
q the war The willehsd will act with
b the American three mile limit as q
telegraph station for submarines. She
has four months provisions aboard"
The second letter was from the cap
tain OF tho willehad. named Jachens.
VINO wrote from New London TO his sis
ter in Germany. saying:
= rejoice am now here as captain
Of the willehad. The koln still lies at
Boston. am here with the Willehad
On q special mission. Later you will
hear more from me. rejoice that l
Aave done something for The fatheriand
and that I still have more to do
Writer Of Letter Found.
QUINCY. Mass. oct. %. - Max
wieltsch. = mach!nist employed N TINS
city. who came to this country on the
German steamer w,,,ehed. now At New
London, Conn, said Tonight that he had
recently written a letter to his brother
Gustav, who IL in the German army.
Jschens Pleads Ignorance.
NEW IoSpoS. Conn. Oct. 25.-Capt.
yachens OF the North German Lloyd
steamship yvillehad, which has been tied
up here since she arrived from Boston
last August, denied late to-day any
knowledge OF the letters intercepted by
the British on their way TO Germany
referring to movements OF the Willehad.
Capt. Jachens's only answer to all
questions was; II don't know anything
about H."
The Wlllehad Is tied up TO the pier
prepared by the Eastern Forwarding
Company, agent OF the subinersibie
Deutschland She is made fast to clus-
ter piling ntty feet away from the pier.
her stern hard against the bank OF the
Thames River. Her wireless Is sealed
Between the ship and the pier IL space
of about nifty feet. intended 70: tho re-
oeption OF ,he expected Bremen or other
sh,ps OF the submarine merchant fleet
A foat.ng gate thirty feet high has been
CONSTRUCTED, made fast TO piling at Ia.
bow OF the Willehad and 40 designed
that when closed the space between the
chip and the pier II completely closed In
Kolu sim In BOston.
The piling under the pier on which
the shed is built. as we'll as the pil.nl
10 which the wiliehad II made fast II
said to have been wired under the wRte
TO prevent, II was explained. possible
damage 20 merchant submarine b!
boats coming up to II under the pier
These wires are electrically connecte'
with a gong in the office Of the com
puny.
Tho rteamship Koln, also owned b.
th. North German Lloyd. which reache,
Boston from Bremen on August II. 1914
after eiudinG British cruisers In the At
lsn,ic, Is still tied up there.
WASHINGTON, Oct. oJ. - There hav
been various rumors about the n.isslo
of the Willehad at New London. bu
Government officials here after investi
cation have accepted as true the stor
that she ventured TO sea from Bosto
and brayed the allied cruiser patrol OF
the coast for nifty miles to act a
'.mother ship for German merchan
submarines expected to arrive at tn
Connecticut port.
Naval officers thought tonight tha
the special mission referred to in IN
letter credited to Capt. Jachens ev
IDENTIFY was the task Of caring for IN
merchant submarines and their crew
as Capt. Hinsch did at Baltimore wit
the steamship Neckar. They pointed OF
that any attempt on the Willehad's pal
30 act as a telegraph station within III
Ia nvnlH Ian sA