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gallant captain safely over his very frequent financial 
rocks. 
To both von Bemstorff and von Papen, the sanctity of 
human life, as their work became more vicious, was a matter 
entirely out of their calculations. The Ambassador who had 
received all courtesies from the American Government, the 
recipient of unusual honours from many American Universities, 
indebted to hundreds of Americans for exceptional and con- 
tinuous hospitality, never once lifted his voice to his Foreign 
Office in opposition to any order for the carrying out of pro- 
pagandist activities in the United States which involved the 
loss of hundreds of innocent lives. 
Time after time he, with von Papen and Baron von Schoen, 
gleefully celebrated the destruction of munition plants in 
America. When word came that the Lusitania was sunk, 
the Bemstorff's Press agents reported him as being " over- 
come with grief and regret " in a fashionable New York 
hotel — he was at that moment actually giving a supper party 
elsewhere in New York, and during this supper party the 
destruction of the Lusitania was hailed as a glorious triumph 
for German naval prowess. During the evening von Papen, 
touching glasses with his chief, made the remark : 
" This is the end of the mistress of the seas." 
Capt. Boy-Ed, who was not at this function, alone among 
the entire group of German Embassy officials persisted in 
declaring that the sinking of the Lusitania was a blunder of 
the worst kind. 
On another occasion when, at a conference at ii, Broadway, 
the offices of the Hamburg-American Steamship Co., the 
question as to what should be done to silence the Providence 
Journal aime up, von Papen and Koenig, known as the " chief 
of the secret service " of the Hamburg-American Line, at 
once declared that the Journal office should be blown up, 
Boy-Ed declined to accept this point of view, and refused to 
have a hand in such proceedings, earnestly advising against it. 
It is interesting to note, in connection with the mental 
attitude of these two Embassy officials with regard to crimes 
of this character, that while von Papen since" his return to 
Germany has been twice decorated by the Emperor, and has 
been advanced a rank to a colonelcy, Capt. Boy-Ed has 
remained a captain and has receiw^ed no such honours at the 
hands of the German Government. 
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not hitherto published, sent by Capt. Boy-Ed to Adolf Paven- 
stadt,* of 112, West 59th Street, New York, from German 
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been the guest of ' Pavenstadt on several occasions during bis visit 
to the United States. 
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As a result of the instructions received by wireless 
from Berlin the above advertisement was inserted in the 
New York World and New York Times of May ist, 1915. 
The advertisement obviously referred to the Lusitania, 
which was sunk six days later, but the announcement 
was ingeniously dated April 22nd, 1915, for insertion by 
the newspaper of May ist. 
I.IX II, 3, 4, 5, 6 
For translation see previous page. 
General Headquarters in Berlin under date of March 5th, 
1916. Pavenstadt's address, on this letter, is likewise the 
address of the German Club (Deutscher Verein) : 
Dear Mr. Pavenstadt : In order not to appear rude any 
longer, I do not want to let another Sunday pass without 
sending you a line to show you that I have certainly not 
forgotten you, in spite of all the commotion, turmoil and 
work. 
I sincerely hope that I shall soon have more leisure for my 
private affairs than I have now. That will probably be the 
case if I am left in my present appointment, which is very 
interesting and very agreeable (being independent and 
greatly esteemed). Unfortunately, however, that is not a 
certainty. At least the sword of Damocles seems to be 
hanging over me, and, if it falls, I should again be transferred 
to another very busy and exacting appointment (in Berlin). 
Such a change will be most unwelcome to me, at least for the 
present, as I am rather upset on account of my nervous 
■ complaints. Above all, I am also sleeping wretchedly. In 
other respects, however, I am very well, as I said before, and 
it is grand to be in the thick of it amidst all the knowledge, 
decisions and plans. 
Papen has been for some time on the West front, as battalion 
commander ih a Guards regiment. It was a pity he brought 
so many useless papers, checjues, etc., with him. I hope 
that his bad luck has not inconvenienced you too. His 
superiors do not appear to have taken the matter tragically, 
as he was awarded a second Order. 
Everybody here is full of confidence, though nobody 
ventures to say how long the business will last. 
Kindest regards to all our common acquaintances, especially 
Messrs. Rath, Siedenburg, Neuhoft, Fleischmann, Baron 
Schroder and yourself. 
From your faithful and very grateful friend, 
Karl Boy-Ed. 
While von Bemstorff directed everything that was done in 
connection with the blowing up of factories, the placing of 
bombs in freight ships, the poisoning of mules on transports, 
and all the other movements aimed to terrorise the United 
States and to paralyse traffic with the Allies, he invariably 
kept himself away from any conferences concerning details of 
these plots, and the most elaborate precautions were always 
taken, whenever it was possible, to get him out of the way at 
the time when such outrages were scheduled. 
On two occasions when munitions plants were blown up he 
had gone to Lenox, the summer home of the Austrian 
Ambassador, Dumba, on the preceding day. His constant 
declaration to both von Papen and Boy-Ed was that he must 
never be bothered with details concerning these plots, and 
that, after talking over the general scheme, the carrying out 
of all such work should be conducted without any reference 
whatever to him, so that he should be ignorant of details 
until the matter under way was concluded. ; 
Bemstorff's idea was that in order to make Americans believe 
whatever he wished them to believe, it was necessary only to 
state his case — the training of the German State-made mind 
— was not shaken for a long while after the beginning of the 
European war. 
(To be continued.) 
