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Show H MILITARY ATTACHE WHO IS H PERSONA NON GRATA. H Captain Boy-ed, the German mill- H "tary attache, has been virtually or- H dered to leave the United States, Sec- Hl retary Lansing Laving served notice H on Count von Bornsforff," German am- H bassador to the United States, that H .the military .attacho Is persona non H grata to this government.. This ac- Hf tion follows swiftly on the verdict of H the Now York jury, which, yesterday H found the four officials. of tho Ham- 1 burg-American line gullty"of violating Hj ohV neutrality laws, . Captain Boy-ed's Hl name Vas prominently mentioned H2 'throughout the trial and the conspir- H acy 'as traced to' the" military at- B tache's office. j Captain Boy-ed repeatedly has been j quoted in the press as -having a poor opinion of this country and ho has been credited as viewing with contempt con-tempt the efforts to curb his unneutral unneu-tral movements. Ships have been set on fire, docks blown, up, powder works destroyed, gun plants reduced to ashes and athousand other offensive offen-sive acts -committed and the trail of the dynamiter and incendiary invariably invari-ably has led baclc- to the headquarters of Captain Boy-ed. With the verdict of tho Jury yesterday, at least one very reprehensible off ens against the United States was unmistakably placed at the door of tho military attache. at-tache. The time had arrived for the United States government to de nounco the outrages and no better course could have been pursued than to order tho offensive plotter to leave. Boy-ed's expulsion should bo followed fol-lowed up by an endless ferreting out of the hired carriers of bomb and torch, who have left a path of destruction destruc-tion across the continent. |