MURDER OF FRYATT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 11

MURDER OF FRYATT.

REASONS FOP THE GRIME

. Vfhv Captain Fryatt was murdered ui sucVa hurry and who were, chiefly responsible, are made clear in an art c « m the chief Prussian Conservative paper Kreuz Zeitung," by Pressor KcE with tho deliberate intention, of exa* pemting British public opinion and enabling pan-German annexationists and anti-Bothmammes to cry "England will never forget us now; we mustfirfrfc her to the last drop of blood " S In oner words, writes the Amsterdam correepondent of a London journal Cantain Iryatt's murder was a political crime intended to choke once arid for all the growing hopes of many Cernnns that the fate of the bulk of the nK might possib y b e avoided by sacrificing A° + m ° n J C ? lly r ? Bponsible i'o'' the war 1 hat such hopes have recently been en' tertained in some quarters i e unquestionable. J

Professor Kruckmann, in the course °\ f °?3 harangue, says: "Anyone who had taken the trouble to study the English character- could not help saying when ho received - the news of Frvatt's execution, "Now we have burned" our boats." "Previously there was just a. possibility of coming to some arrangement with fiigland without completely defeating her. That possibility has now vanished tor ever. England will never forgive us for Captain Fryatt. Her national pride has never been so injured. For the period of tho war, as 'well as for the succeeding peace, there is no earthly possible of reaching tolerable relations.

The professor then explains that so far from in any way frightening England or of giving her a lesson of which others vainly talk, Captain Fryatt's death will only steel her nerves and increase her deferminatiton. Therefore he argues, Germany must follow up this pinprick with real blows in a final colossal struggle wherein no means of injuring England dare to be omitted. "Nobody," he continues, "who knew England could be in the slightest doubt that the shooting of an English captain must produce a final development of the war into one of pitiless fighting to the bloodiest- of ends. By shooting Fryatt we have begun this new phase; and 'now there is no turning back."