As soon as it was picked up the return answer was flashed to "proceed to a point ten miles south of Old Head of Kinsale and run into St. George's Channel, making Liverpool bar at midnight."
The British Admiralty also received Captain Turner's call and sent directions "to proceed to a point seventy to eighty miles south of Old Head of Kinsale and there meet convoy."
But the British were slow and the Germans rapid. Captain Turner received the false message instead of the genuine one, and over a thousand unfortunate beings were sent to their doom.
At the inquest the two messages were produced and the treachery became apparent. Further investigations pointed direct to Sayville, Long Island, New York, to which place the plot was traced.
The German witnesses who swore the Lusitania had guns aboard her were indicted in America and imprisoned for perjury.
To use the wireless for any such cause as above described was contrary to and in violation of neutrality laws; also of the United States of America's statutes governing wireless stations.
In many chapters full of vivid detail Mr. Price Jones gives extraordinary particulars of conspiracies and plots against persons and property.
In scathing terms he condemns Captain Franz von Papen, von Igel and Koenig, Captain Karl Boy-Ed, Captain Franz von Rintelen, Dr. Heinrich F. Albert and Ambassador Dumba as spies, conspirators, or traitors; men without conscience, whom no action, however despicable, would stop.