New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-24
ASSERTS B0Y-ED
SENT U-53 IN TEST
providence Journal" Says
Plan Was to Force
Hand of u. S.

Providence, Oct. 24.-"The Providence
Journal" to-day says:
1.-THE Providence Journal has in
formation, secured direct from German
Embassy sources, which conclusively
settles the controversy as 20 the real
reasons why the German submarine
U-53 crossed the Atlantic and entered
Newport Hsrbor.
THE entire scheme was originated
and supervised by Captain Karl Boy
Ed, late naval attache to the United
States. who, from his headquarters in
Lubbock, where he still is, has directed
every move that has been made and
that is yet to be made by German sub
marines of the coast Of the United
States.
Fix Status IN United States
THE first and most important reason
for the coming Of the U-53 was to os-
tablsh practically a definite working
agreement with the United States gov
eminent as to the scope permitted to
submarine activities in our waters and
the extent to which the present Ad
ministration was prepared to recognize,
without protest, the right Of U-boats to
sink merchant ships within q short
radius of our coast.
"The rumor that the U-53 was ac-
companed to American waters by other
submarines is true. The Journal is
able to state positively that her con-
sorts were the U-4S, commanded by
Captain L. Michaelis. and the U-6l. in
charge of Lieutenant Commander H.
Griefen. The journals information
also is that all these three submarines
are still in territory adjacent to the
American coast, and that the belief that
they returned to Germany is erroneous.
Boyd Gives Reasons
an a private letter written by Cap
tain Boyd to an official of the Ger
man Embassy in this country on Sep
=, u
rival of the U-53 at Newport, he him
self explains the motive which prompted
the German government, at his SO
icitation, to order the carrying out OF
this undertaking. He says:
"'lt is vitality necessary Tor US to
establish some proper working basis
which will be satisfactory TO President
Wilson, and in order to do that we
must create a condition which will ne
cessitate a ruling.
Amy thought Of our being permit
ted to use our submarines TO bring
captured vessels into American ports
as prizes must, Of course, be aban-
doned when we think of the Appam
case. Confronted by such an obstacle
at one end, We are also forced TO the
conclusion that we cannot at this mo-
ment," while domestic events are pend
ing in America" sink such vesse 3 with
out taking account Of human life. In
order to ascertain where we stand We
must, therefore, force the issue and
see 10 what extent America is willing
TO carry out her alleged humanitarian
ideals by helping US to save the lives
of those whose ships we destroy III the
coming campaign on the western At
lsntic.
Planned Trap for Liners
"In an hour after the U-53 left New
port mysterious wireless messages from
Nauen were sent out constantly over
12,500-meter wave length and addressed
to no station. This code was an arbl-
trary ten-letter code, each word con-
sisting of words from the italian and
Spanish languages, and undoubtedly
conveyed specific instructions 70 her
and 70 the other U-boats with regard
to the possibility Of trapping the steam
ship Alaunia, which left New, York at .
o'clock that afternoon, and also the
Dante Alighieri, which sailed from
New York at noon on that day. Both
Of these vessels, however, took route