SAVED FROM EXECUTION
THREAT TO BOMB TOWN LORD HALSBURY'S story How a threat of reprisals during the saved a British seaman —a captain—from being executed was repealed bj* Lord Hal3bury at Kensington. Loudon. At Christmas. 1916. lie said, he was Jith a squadron of airplanes in the The Germans had just captured a British captain in the same circumstances as Captain Fryatt was taken, and they had condemned him to be shot. “I got orders direct from the Admiralty to load up all machines and be teady to go over the nearest German town and bomb men. women and children it the execution was carried out. “Those orders were allowed to leak °ut in Berlin. The man was not shot. h ut he would have been if we had not t» p en ready to carry out the threat.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290415.2.102
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 11
Word Count
139SAVED FROM EXECUTION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.