ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

CAPTAIN FRYATT'S MURDER. RESIGNED TO HIS FATE. DOOMED BEFORE TRiau SUGGESTED REPRISALS. London, July 30. The steward of a Xorwegian steamer talked with Captain Fryatt, who was resigned to his fate. The Germans plainly told him he would be shot. The Evening Xews asserts that Captain Fryatt was doomed before his trial, '(lie Germans laid special plans to capture the Brussels. M. Copus, member of the French Academy, writng to the Figaro, demands vengeance for the German brutality at Lille, Roubaix and the Fryatt case without mcrev or pity. Sir Henry "Dalzicll', M.P., urges that it is the duty of the British Government to commandeer all enemy property as a means of bargaining and seeing ; lat our wishes are carried out. ' The Daily Mail says that Captain / ryatt was murdered with devilish cold .oloodedneas in defiance of German tenets with regard to sea law. All German property in the Empire ought li be immediately impounded and we ought to forbid intercourse with Germany for a generation. The Daily Chronicle says that the name of Captain Fryatt takes a place with those of Lonvain, the Lusitania, Nurse Cavill, and the Wittenburg Camp, which are branded on the brow of the German" nation like the mark of Cain.

MORE GERMAN GLOATING. gIOT AT ROTTERDAM. London, July 30. The Times' Amsterdam correspondent says: The German newspapers gloatingly refer to the murder of Fryatt. The Cologne Volks Zeitung says: It was necessary to protect honorable and chivalrous submarine combatants against the perfidious and murderous attacks of civilians. The Weser Zeitung says: The shooting is especially gratifying because, it ctrikes the British Government and its system. Germans can pass the world's indignation with a cold smile because the punishment was just. Rotterdam, July 30. There was a riot oyer the Fryatt case and the crowd smashed the windows of the German Consulate. A PERTINENT QUESTION. / WHAT LINCOLN WOULD HAVE ■ , ©ONE. APPLICATION OF KITCHENER'S SCHEME URGED. {Received Aug. 1, 12.53 a.m. London, July 21, Commenting on the murder of Captain Fryatt, the Daily Mail asks: When will the Foreign Office learn that a cannibal isn't reformed by telling him that his habits are ungentlemanly and contrary to the rules of the game? The paper recalls Lincoln's ordei that for every United States soldier killed in violation of the laws of war a rebel soldier must be executed, and urges the adoption of Lord Kitchener's ]i£nnosed twenty-one years' deprivation of civil rights. INDIGNATION IN HOLLAND. Received Aug. 1, 12.50 a.m. Rotterdam, July 31. Captain Fryatt's death has arouse.l the utmost indignation in Holland. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE. London, July 30. Dr. MacNamara, in a speech, said: ''Captain Fryatt's death fills all our minds and stirs the depths of horror and indignation. Our sentiments concerning the outrageous crime should be shared by the whole civilised world." The Press Bureau ha 3 issued a paraphrase of a telegram from the American Embassy, Berlin, dated July 27, received on the 29th, replying to Viscount Grey's Notes of the 18th and 28th. It states that the German Foreign Office verbally informed the Ambassador on the 20th that Captain Fryatt's trial had been fixed to take place at' Bruges on the 27th, and it would try to secure :i postponement, but wrote on the 27th that a postponement was impossible, because German submarine witnesses could not be detained. The telegram adds that an attorney was appointed to defend Captain Fryatt. ■' AMERICAN DENUNCIATION. New York, July 30. The New York Times says that the cowardly methods of warfare which have made the German navy distinct from all others are worthily upheld by the Fryatt case. The Germans have made a grave tactical error, which will vastly increase British bitterness and have not the slightest effect in frighten ing other captains. The Government order under which Fryatt acted was the product of the German form of warfare which the rest of the world lias unreservedly condemned. A submarin' so used is an outlaw in the iudgment of civilised, people/ ~.- ■•-Aj.ii ( '$ THE APPAM DECISIS. - New York, July 30. j The Federal Court finding in the Ap- ' pam case adds that the action of the i German Prize Court in declaring the Api pam a prize does not affect the jurisdiction of the American courts, which is established by a long line of precedents. The Appam came without permission and cannot leave owing to the lack of a crew. Therefore she must be treated jas abandoned and stranded on our shores. Washington reports say that the decision forces the United States Z I'icnt to decide the future of Captain Berg and the prize crew. If they are regarded as part of the German naval forces they must be interned. The State Department expects an appeal to the Supreme Court. WIRELESS FOR BRITISH VESSELS. London, July 30. The new regulations under the Defence of the Realm Act state that British vessels over 3000 tons must be provided with wireless,