GERMANS VILLIFYING THEIR VICTIM.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14154, 3 August 1916, Page 5

GERMANS VILLIFYING THEIR VICTIM.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received August 2,- 7.30 p.m.) « London, August 1.

A German communique justifying the execution described' Captain Fryatt as a hired assassin attempting to earn the reward offered by the' British Government for sinking a. submarine.

British newspapers'comment that the Germans did not execute the captain of the .Clan MacTavisli.. though ho at-

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tempted to sink, the Moewe. It is evident that they liad^ a special spite against Captain Fryatt.