WHY GERMANY DID NOT KILL CAPTAIN BLAIKIE.
LONDON, Dec. 21. The Daily Express has ascertained the reason why Captain Blaikie, of the torpedoed Anchor liner Caledonia, was not murdered, as Captain Fryatt was murdered, by the Germans. It was announced in Parliament on Tuesday that Germany had decided that Captain Blaikie was within his rights in atempting to ram the attacking submarine, because the Caledonia was an armed cruiser. The real reason why Germany had a sudden access of humanity was that she was informed that if Captain Blaikie were murdered two Germans submarine commanders, now British prisoners of war, would be treated in a similar fashion. ..The German listens to that "sort of argument
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 March 1917, Page 4
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115WHY GERMANY DID NOT KILL CAPTAIN BLAIKIE. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 March 1917, Page 4
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