CAPTAIN FRYATT.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15750, 17 November 1916, Page 8

CAPTAIN FRYATT.

FAREWELL TO HIS CREtf. • (raosi oua own corkespondini.7' • ' LONDON. October 6. Stewardesses of the steamer Bros* sels which was .seized by the German* some months ago have now been permitted t<j return to Fugland. Ttey say that when they arrived at Cologne, after a veiy uncomfortable joan»y from Zecbrugge. they were separated from the rest of the crew and ware taken by train to Hoizminden, where they arrived at 1 .'>o a.m. 'We had to walk about two miles, accompanied by soldiers, who earned our baggage. It was four in the morning when we arrived at the laager. Von can imajaiic bow tired we wpre. And, oh! wo were so hungry! was nothing in the barracks to to® we were tak?n—not even a. straw sack. 'You must lie on the bare boards,' swd the German guards. The nexfc day** . were given :: sack of straw to elec-p •> and then parsed over to a doctorTlicre were other people in the barncßt , 1 mainly of Polish nationality. If'® hud not buen for tho food sent of toe Great Eastern Railway Company, to® lied Cror-?. and Dodds, we shouW have starved/' Captain Fryatt was begged by soaie of those on board to send out a less message as soon as it was. realise® that the ship was held by the enemy''No," he said, "if they find roe <w®B that tliey will probably sink us straigtt away, and as there are women <® board I must think of o®* do northing in any way rash." - ''Indeed, through it aH," declared the stewardess, with tears in by eyes, "Captain Fryatt was splencuQHe never thought for a moment of ws own peril, but exerted himself in ercry . possible way on our behalf. I asked . him what he thought won Id happen*® us—whether we should be inrnnsoMj jor shot. He laughed cheerily a I said, 'Good gracious, no! W ®L* shoot me! don't you worry. The WJJTW that can possibly happen to mc is tna I may be Interned for the rest of tD® war; and the worst that can h a PP en _~ you is a fow days' detention. j*l were handed over to the oommandait •at Cologne railway station, _ Captw . Fryatt took the trouble to . him personally on our behalf. care of my rjirls," he said, and were the last words wc heard nflo speak. It wa3 four days after he J M® been murdered that we heanl,. news in our camp. A German BMP' - brought Ufi a local paper and readj*"* dreadful tidings out to ns —as-tho®*? 1 he enjoyed it. We were struck and horrified, and we , believe jt at first.'*