NOTORIOUS U-BOAT CAPTAIN IS RELEASED.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16726, 8 January 1920, Page 7

NOTORIOUS U-BOAT CAPTAIN IS RELEASED.

f LONDON, Deocmber 1. The Ktory of tho arrest, imprisonment, nnd finnl rclonso of Captain Kai scrivottor, commander of tho German submarine which Bank tho British hospital ship Glcnort Castlo, discloßos a wide differcnco of opinion botween Britisli Government dcmrtmcnts as to what rights the Allied rowers hare to puniflh the perpetrators of wanton warfare. The Governmont logal departmont held that had no richt to dtv tain Kaißcrwetter dnring the life of tho armistice, while the Admiralty officials lxiliored that they had the riftlit to arrest such offenders any time ami hold thorn for trial after pcace was declared. I After tho signing of the armistice ' Kaifienvotter went to Spain, where he obtained passports for his return to Germany. 110 made the mistake, however, of landing at Falmonthj where ho oxpcctod to board a vessel for tho Baltic. Admiralty officers at Falmonth arrested him and brought him nocrotly <o tho Tower of London. PViends of Kaiserwetter appealed to the Government legal department, which found that Rngland was not entitled to arrost him until pcaco had been declared. "Hiis dodsion haR negatived ranch of tho work tho Admiralty has done in tracing tho perpetrators of the more barharons submarine warfaro. In view of Iho great amount of sorret worit done on various cases of this kind tinKaiserwetter mling mmn as a bomhfhell to Admiralty officers.