THE FRYATT MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17144, 25 April 1919, Page 6

THE FRYATT MURDER.

GERMANY NOT REPENTANT. A FABCICAL INVESTIGATION. LONDON, April i. ! Renter's correspondent at Berlin reports that on April 3 the chairman of the German Commission investigating the murder of Captain Fryatt (Professor Schueking),, in a long statement defending the verdict, I makes a number of striking admissions showing that if the commission is representative of present-day Germany tho Germans are utterly unrepentant of the foulest deeds in wartime. Despite admissions that the American Embassy urged the appointment of a defending counsel, backed up by the German Foreign Office, that Captain" Fryatt'a logbook was not consulted, that the military regulations did not permit of the speedy execution of a death sentence, except in cases in the open field of warfare, and whereas the trial of Captain Fryatt oc- ! curred at Bruges, where no open field warfare existed, and after 18 months had elapsed once the commission of the deed, Schueking declares that no exception to the proceedings can be taken. It transpired that one witness, presumably a naval man, remarked at the trial, "I know mi Foreign Ministry." This statement, the commission says, o»okes their astonishment.