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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-08-03, Page 7NEWEST GERMAN MURDER AWAKENS MERELY HORROR Killing of Capt. Fryatt of the Brussels Ap- proaches Cavell Crime . Nations.. Express Indignation, Say irtte. telfidaiite•"Dimanded. (By G. F. Steward). 'Rotterdam Cable.—Here, where Captain Charles Fryatt, the executed 13ritiols shipmaster, who was cbarged with having tried to ram and sink a German oubmarine, was well known and eeteemed, the greatest indignation is felt. The strong opinion is express- ed that the Germane committed a deed only paralleled by the Num Cavell base. The hurried action in carrying Out the eentence immediately after it had been passed, would indicate that the naval court had thoroughly made up its mind to give a further proof of frightfulness. The .Amersterdam Telegraaf says: "The execution causee no surprise, but excites horror and indignation at a crime which is ao mean as the shoot ing of the brave English nurse. It is a burning shame, which calls for vengeance," London July 29.—News of the execu- tion of Capt. Fryatt, of the Brassels, caused a painful impression at the Bri- tish Foreign Office. Under the instruc- tions of Viscount Grey, the Foreign Secretary, a note wee despatched im- mediately to the American Embassy requesting thaf James W. Gerard, the American Ambassador at Berlin pre, cure complete details of the affair. The first intimation of the trial of 'Captain Fryatt was called to the at- tention of the Foreign Office by press reports on July 18 to the effect that he was to be tried as the result of find- ing on him a watch containing an in- scription reciting his efforts to ram a Crerman submarine. Prom enquiries made of the owners of the steamship Wrexham, which Captain Fryatt commanded when the alleged incident took place, the For- eign Office learned the captain had with him neither a watch nor a letter to the effect that he had attempted to ram a submarine with him when he was captured. Therefore, officials here state, the charge must have been based on press reports. , ,When the news that •Captain Pryatt was .te be tried.was ree4ived the Edr- ejgn Office imjaiediaterYYSent 4:1ote".".•,to the 4'inerican4mbas4pr, NVAltet-H. Ragee;request-Ing thamerice.nyeeip- lomatio repred:e+ntativee;take all neces- saryisteps to Vovide for his defence, caUig attentipn to the fact that the Wrexham's a:ot in steering toward the submarine and forcing her to dive was essentially defensive and precisely the Came as if she had used the de- fence arm which the United States and Great Britain hold to be an un- doubted right. No reply was received from Am- bassador Gerard, but the Foreign Office is convinced he acted with his usual promptitude. Therefore, it is their theory that the trial .and execu- tion of Captain Fryatt was hurried even more than in the case of Mists 4 Edith Cavell. Besides the original enquiry, the Foreign Office sent two other notes on the subject•to Ambassador Gerard. Discussing the case, Baron Newton, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who during the conversation was sum- moned to Foreign Secretary Grey's office for a confeeence on the subject, said: WORSE THAN CAVELL CASE. "On the face of the details of the report, as received by us, the execu- tion of Captain Fryatt seems to be -worse than the Cavell case. It is an extremely grave incident, the import- ance of which it would be difficult to exaggerate. It must be borne in mind that when the alleged ramming took place, German submarines were at- tacking merchant ships without any warning whatsoever." According to wireless messages from Germany, Captain Fryatt was executed "for a franc-tireur crime against armed German sea forces." Officers of the Admiralty were arous- ed to intense indignation when they learned of the affair. The naval of- fice said: "The execution of Captain Fryatt is in violation of all law and all precedent at sea. It affects every merchant officer in the world, neutral as well as belligerent. "There is no such thing known as a franc-tireur at sea. We have offi- cers of German submarines whom we have taken as prisoners of war, who rammed merchant ships with- out warning and fired upon merchant ships without warning, but they are treated as prisoners of war. We also have naval officers who dropped bombs from Zeppelins on harttleas and undefended towns and killecl civi- lian inhabitants.' In the cross channel service, Capt. Fryatt was known as a "pirate dodg- er," because on several occasion e he had succeeded in eluding German sulemarines by skilful navigation. • When the capture of the Brussels was reported the Daily Chronicle said in referenee to Capt. Fryatt: "For a particularly brilliant explielt in March, 1915, he Was presented with a gold Watch, stiltAbly insetibed, by the Lords Conentissioner of the Adrairalty, together with their thanks MI Yea Oii lune" anether aaton, some menthe before he surrendered the Britt4sele, according te the Chronicle 'his Wesel was chased for over an hour by sub. while he was outward bound trent Hartvieli te Rotterdatn, bet he suceeeded in getting safely away. A few days later, When near the North Hinder lightship, a torpedo was fired at Ilis Vessel, missing it by only A. few feet. FIVE' STEWARDESSES INTERNED The British Foreign (Mite has been informed that five Stewardesses of the eteaMehip Brussels have been confin- ed in a German detention camp. The V'oreign Offiee has mint n vigerouepro test to the American lembasey de. mantling their immediate release on The ground that their Interfitnent is iflegal. "The Foreign Office to -night the text of the correepondenee he- tween Foreign Secretary Grey and Walter Hines Page, the American Am- bassador. On June 28 the Foreign Secretary requested that Mr. Page ascertain the =Tees of the British subjects on board the Brussels, Mr. Page replied July 1 that he bad learned from James W. Gerard, that the officers and crew of the Brussels_were safe and well, and interned at Ruhleben; that the five stewardesses had been separated from the crew at Cologne, and that Mr. Gerard was inquiring as to their whereabouts and arranging their prompt repatriation, On July 18 Secretary Grey request- ed Mr. Page to enquire into the truth of a report that Cape Fryatt, of the Brussels was to be court-martialed and on the 20th asked Mr. Page to tele- graph Berlin and secure a proper de fence for Captain Fryatt, and to in- form Mr. Gerard confidentially that the British Government was "satis- eed that in committing the act im- pugned Captain Fryatt acted legiti- mately in self-defence for the pur. Pose of evading capture or destruc- tion." EXERCISED UNDOUBTED RIGHT. On the 25th Secretary Grey again asked Ambassador Page to inform Ambassador Gerard that, should the allegations on whiee the rharge against Captain Fryatt is understood to be based be established, by evi- dence, his Majesty's Government are of the opinion that his action was perfee tly legitimate. The communication continued: "His Majesty's Government considers that the act of a merchant ship in steering for an enemy submarine and forcing her to dive is essentially de- fensive, and precisely on the same footiag as the use by a defensively armed vessel of her defensive arma- ment in order to resist capture, which both the United States Government and his Majesty's Government hold to be the exercise of an undoubted right." • The Captain Fryatt case calls at- tention to the German prize regula- tions, which provide that under cir- cumstances similar to the capture of the Brussels 'merchantmen are to be treated as prisoners of war. An ape Pendix to those regulations issued June 22, 1914, reads: "If an armed enemy merchant ves sel offers armed resistance to the right of visit and search and 'capture, this is to be broken down by all pos- sible means. The enemy Government is responsible for any damage there- by caused to the ship, its cargo and passengers. The members of the crew are to be treated as prisoners of war. Passengers are to be liberated unless it is proved they have taken part in the resistance. In the latter case they are to be proceeded against in accord. mice with the extraordinary martial law procedure." When captured by German torpedo boats on June 24 Capt. Fryatt was piloting the steamship Brussels from Rotterdam to Tilbury. Several war- ships dashed out, from the naval base at Zeebrugge and escorted the Brus- eels back to the Belgian harbor. On board the Brussels was an unusually large number of Belgian women and children refugees, and she carried an all-Blitish crew of 44 men. Included in the cargo were 400 tons of mar- garine and quantities of fish, butter and meat. Dutch newspapers eaid it was gen- erally believed that the capture of the Brussela was brought about by ,a Passenger who said he was an American, but who was believed to be a German. The man remained on deck throughout the voyage and was said to have made signals with lighte, with the result that the Ger- man warships steamed up and halted the vessel. INVITES RETALIATION. Washington, July 28. — Germany's execution of Capt. Charles Fryatt, master of the British steamship Brus- sels. for an alleged attempt to ram a submarine, is regarded in Allied Quarters here as a brutal violation of international law, likely to result in prompt retaliatory measures by Great Britain. They contend that it a hostile sub- marine approached the Brussels it was in effect an attack. and Captain Fryatt in making a counter-attack by attempting to ram, subjected himself only to treatment as a prisonee of war in event of capture. The United States Government is interested In the incident and what may follow it, particularly because of the bearing it may have slams the dif- ficult problems involved hi submar- the warfare, which in the Past have brought the country to the brink of war, because it is charged with the care of interests ot prisoners on both sides. Reprisals by the Allies, it is feared, Might be followed by et ehange In the German submarine pelleY, which has been satisfactory to the fleeted States since the last assur- ances that merchant ship would not be attacked without warning or with out provision- for safety of peesetigers mid erews. Authorities on isternatiotial 'leer agree that the justice or initistiee of the shooting of Capt. Pryatt depends entirely upon the eirctImetances under which he headed hie vessel for the eulmearine.' It the submarine attack- ed, or was atmet to attack him, he had the right of counter-attack; if he was seeking out an enemy veto' for attaek he placed himself In the class of a criminal subject to sum. Mary exetution upon capture. Con- vention No. 10, of the geeond Hague Nate Conference, sets forth how the crew of merehantmen, who legiti- mately Testa Capture .shall be treated as part of the armed forces of an ene- my. Official/I here point mit that the United States has taken the position that the master of any merehant ves el who ses a stibmnrine RIIproaeh. Mg, has from the very nature of the submarine methed of warfare, a right to presuine that he is ielliet4,-eo4e at - Melted. Coneequently, it is argaed he has the right, in turn, to forestall that attack by hiraselt ramming or Ming te defend himeelf, THE BREMEN, German. Merchant' Sub. Re- ported in England, Besten, Mao, Report.—Iteports that the German, submarine Brenton was captured were strengthened by the Celtic, whicla arrived here to- day.. Asked if she had seen any- thing of the German, submarine, he seed that from information which be has received from an authoritative source, he understood that a mer- chant submarine, which preceded the Deutscaland, had been captured and tetken to England, and that the Bremen was also at the same place. KING IN DANGER. Denmark's Ruler Near Death by Drowning. London Cable.—The iKng of Den- mark had a narrow escape from drowning this afternoon through the capsizing of a boat which he was sail- ing near Aarhus, says a Reuter de - speech from Copenhagen. The King wont out alone in a small sailboat, and while sailing it a sud- den puff of wind capsized the craft, which turned bottom upward, throw- ing the King into the water. The King immediately swam to the overturned craft, and pulling himself uponit, sat astride the keel, where his plight was observed from the shore. Boats immediately hastened of the King's assistance and roomed him, none the worse for his immer- sion. POOR GERMANY LIKE A LAMB AMONG WOLVES Hun Foreign Office Tells How Allies Forced War Upon Her. BRITAIN'S FINE WORK Enemy's Chief Hatred for Her—Still Sure Entente Will Lose. (By Times Special Cable.) Berlin Cable,— Reviewing the political events of the second year of the war, the German Foreign Office has given to the Associated Press the following statement: "Unlike the military situation, it is not' easy to review briefly the develop- ments in the confused paths of politi- cal events, but au attempt will. be made to trace the leading ideas con- nected with the political proolenss of the second year of the war. "The world war was caused by Rue- sia.'s aggressive policy, supported by France's policy of revenge. But it was rendered possible solely by the fact that English subordinated to her economic antagonism to Germany all her other interests. "Whereas Germany's enemies regard it quite in order that they demand territorial aggrandlzements at the cost of ethers—like Russia, who wants Constantinople and Galicia; like France, who desires Alsace-Lorraine and the left bank of the Rhine, and like Italy, who seeks Austrian terri- tory—they grudge Germany even that she strive to develop herself economi- cally in peaceable competition, and they pronounce this an unpardonable sin against the world's order of things. "They are unwilling that Germany should become great and strong, be- caffse the other powers want to be the economic masters of the world. Ter- ritorial and 'economic, aggrandizement has united Germany's foes in a war destisiction against us. "The second war year, whose end is now approaching, has brought these true aims of our opponents into clearer light. In Russia tide is openly ad- initted, they having an understanding e flit England, and want Constantino- ple as their war goal, In France there is a war -mad cry for Alsace-Lorraine. "In England, too, the mask has been dropped. It is openly admitted that Belgium was only a pretext to justify England's partielpatioa in the war whieh was undertaken only from sett -interest, "Germany must be destroyed. Ger- many shall never more raise her Feed ecotiomically nor militarily. In this way Is the goal of our enemy more clearly enunciated during the seeond year 6f the war. "It is equally clear that the talk of a struggle of democraey against militarism is only a eatch-word steed by our enemies to create sentiment, and to cloak outwardly their real pur- potie of destruction, Assuredly there can be no talk of a struggle for the Maintenance of democratic prineiplea when one side tete out to destrey the enemy cempletely, including the eiviL Ian population, "Chancellor von Bethmatnielioll. weg's remarks made in the Ourse of the year °alined German time with suffieient clearness. England Wants a war of destreetien, a war to the knife, which, according to the plans of our enemies, shall continue even atter the cannon is silenced; for their former talk about the permanent Deane that they Wished to establish has been drowned under the shout that Ger- many's enemies are raising over the Paris eeonomic corifermiee, "Building upon What she already has achieved, Germany treads the threshold of the third year of the War with unshaken donfidetee, But the goal has not yet been reached, for the enemy has not yet Come to set the impossibility of subjugating Ger. many." No one will be more profoundly Rad than he Who laugh a too ter, LLOYD GEORGE STILL HOPES FOR IRELAND Does Not Despair Solution I of Problemistolia.using the R GOOD RESULTS Nationalists and Unionists Shook Hands Instead of Fists. London Cable—"I don't clesPair about an eventual solution of the Irish problem,. in spite of the recent failure to reach an agreement be- tween the Nationalists and the Un- ionists," eaid David Lloyd eGorge to- day in replying to a request from the Associated Press for his views on the breakdown of the negotiations for putting the Irish home rule act into effect immediately. "We achieved at least one thing that had never hitherto been accept- ed," continued the British War Sec- retary, "We brought the representa- tives of the heels Nationalists and the Ulster Unionists to the point of shak- lug hands instead of shaking fists at each otheral. The Secretary for War, however. is still full of optimism regarding the Irish difficulty, In reply to a ques- tion whether the Nationaliets were justified in refusing the proposed sot' tlement, Mr. Lloyd George said; "Never has a better offer been made by all the British parties together. The only new stipulation inserted was one concerning the British and not the Irish Parliament, The moment the demand was put forward by the Unionists that Ireland should be res presented at Westminster only in pro- portion to her population, except when the question of the Irish settle- ment was under consideration: ,it had to be conceded." The Secretary said the main prim- ciples of the settlement remain, name- ly, the immediate creation of an Irish Parliament, exclusive for the present of the part of Ireland which is un- willing to participate in the home rule measure, and consideration of the whole question ,of the future of the Irish Government by an Imperial con- ference at the close of the war. He said that naturally lie was somewhat saddened by the ill -success of his at- tempt to bring both the Irish parties completely together. "I have alwaas been an ardent home -ruled during my political career, and still remain one," Mr. Lloyd George said, "In my opinion a nat- ion which can and does produce such soldiers as the Irish troops, who are now fighting by the side of their fel- low -Britons from all over the Empire with a valor ahnost indescribable, and which gives us such intellects in all branches of life, can and must rule itself." • In answer to a question as to how the breach in the negotiations came about, Mr. Lloyd George said: "There were two points on which there was disagreement. One dealt. with tho means by which the exclu- sios of the six Ulster counties, was to contin.ue or to be brought to an end, This to my view was less a matter of substance than of words. The Nat- ionalists agreed it was impossible that the Ulster counties should be forced into an Irish Parliament. Their e xclusion for the present would not have affected in the slight- est degree the full powers given to the Nationalist part of Ireland under the home rule act, The question of their coming in voluntarily after- wards could have been decided whenie had been seen how home rule Was working out. "The second polet was connected with Irish representation at West- minster. It is not unnatural that the Unionists ccnteilded that Ireland is proportionately over-renresented Iri the House of Commons and that it would not have been fair, either to the portion of Ireland remaining out- side of the home rule echerne, cr to the other parts of the British Isles, to have retained such a full representa- tion of Irish conetituencies in the Commons after the larger part of Ireland had a Parliament of its own to settle its own domestic. affairs. However, the schesne of settlement propceed stated in so many words that when Irish affairs were to be discussed in the London Parliament the full Irieh representation should be called to participate, as before the existence Of the Irish Parliament." Throughout the interview, Mr. Lloyd George spoke without the slightest trace of ' bitterness. Asked whether any further steps would be taken to bring the Irish Dune§ to- gether. the War Secretary said: "1 for one, and 1 am sure the mem- bers of the Cabinet are with me. cer- tainly hope that the last word has not been said. It is a great nitY that the scheme was not accepted, for then the trish Parliament would have been an accomplished fact. The Irleh people would have obtained what. they have strvggled and suffered for during so many generation, An unite home rule Parliament would be in being for five -sixths of Ireland, and once that were eetablislied nothing in the world Could haVe destroyed it again. If a home rule Parliament worked well. as feel certain it would, the apprehei. stens of Ulster would have been re- moved and the Ulster counties Weald Soon tome in of their own free Will, for the Ulsterrnen are Irishmen and wish to help Ireland Work out her high destiny," "Now, liovvever, mikes some settle- irient is quickly effected, who can tell what may happen? When the present War le over new conditions will have arisen. I hope profoundly for the best. I think the Nationalist leaders would have boon well advised to have taken the offer Mede to them, even with the alteration whieli the Unionlet half of the Cabinet demanded. It was, indeed, a very broad measure of home rule, and in my opinion would cer- tainly have eventually led to all the Mune% even those of Ulster, whieli have been most obstinately oppeeed to any such idea, taming into the ohm° after rnthen ey had sethat the rest of tr wee really able to govern itself well. We ehould then have seen what so many have made sari - flew for—a real united Ireland." Hold one another's nose to the trindstone hard, --Thomas Middleton. •HEAVY FIGHT IS RAGING ON SOMME FRONT OMR British Hold All Gains of Friday, and Continue to Take New Ground, lowasar...,•••••••now. AIDS A NEW DRIVE Taking of Delville Wood and Iiongueval Permits of New Assault, London Cable.—One of the moat furious battles of the war ia being waged to -night , on the five -mite Pezieres-Longueval front, where the ilritish and Germans have been cgr pp d in a bloody struggle for more than a week, The British troops are continuing to gain important ground againet the most desperate resistance yet faced in any theatre. With their full weight of guns and with thousands of trained reinforcements, tho Germans are con- testing every inch of the blood-soaked territory. The Germans have been completely driven from the Delville wood, a forest - fortress behind the German third line of defence. The Britieh won the laet inch of ground in its vital position by a night attaok. The wood was held by the famous Nrandenburg corps, which has distinguished itself on every field from Warsaw to Verdun, and it was against these trained veterans that "Kitchener's army of clerks" scored its victory. ONWARD SWING CONTINUED. Undercover on an artilery fire so terrible tiina the German general staff made special comment upon it in their official report, the British today continuedcetheir onward awing, at- tacking the 'Teutons on Longueval, the fcrtified village which has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war. With the Germans already driven in from most of their outlying positions, the British troops to -day attacked the niain defence works of the village, carrying several of the strongest, and obtaining complete control of the entire place. At the same time, on the opposite tip of the day's battle -front, the Brit- ish engaged the Germans in hand-to- hand fighting in the neighborhood of Peeieres. "Our success of yesterday continues," was the word to -night from General Sir Douglas Hale, com- manding. The final capture of Delville wood is very gratifying to the British peo- ple. It was first taken Tilly 17, but was afterwards abandoned: For many days the wood and the village of Longueval have been the scene of some of the heaviest fighting of the whole cam- paign. The poeseseion of Ole wood and of Longueval is expected to facil- itate greatly the further progess of the Franco -British forces. BRITISH REPORT. London Cables—Friday night's report from headquarters in France reads: "Continuing their successes of yes- terday, our troops 'have captured the last enemy stronghold in Longueval, together with a number of prisoners. In the vicinity of Pezieres hand-to- hand fighting has continued through- out the day. Elsewhere on the battle- frout there was considerable artillery activity on both sides. "Two hostile aeroplanes were de- stroyed by one ot our, aerial patrols in the neighborhood of Baisaume yester- day." FRENCH REPORT Paris Cable.—Friday night's War Office statement reads: "In mine duels in the Argonne we oocupied edges of two craters after a grenade struggle at Fille Morte, on the right bank Of the Meuse. We made progress to the west of the ahmennont wood. "In the Vosges, after a lively bom- bardment, 'the enemy twice attacked our pesitions smith of 'Sainte Marie pass. The first attack, which suc- ceeded in their gaining lodgment in our advanced trenches,: was driven back with the baYonet. The seeond attack was launched shortly atter- wards, but was unable to approach our lines, being broken up under our bar- rage fire. During. these actions the enemy suffered appreciable losses. "There was the usual cannonade on the rest of the front. "This morning our aeroplanes pur- Sued a German air squadron in the region of Verdun. Several fights oc- curred in the course of which one enemy machine was forced to come down within our lines and two offieers were made prisoner." "Our aeroplane pilots fought a num- ber of combats yesterday. Two Ger- Man aeroplanes were brought down on the Somme, ono near Drie, the other in the direction of. Saint Christ. A third enemy machine attacked in the Verdun region, descended at Brille, south of Ornes. "In the- Velem an aviator was forme to abandon the fight and eame headlong to the earth. "On the night of July 26 one of our squadrons threw projectiles of heavy calibre on the railways north of Ters nier, the (Manny railway station and convoys on tlie artreli i.i tho region of Colley." ow. PLAGUE Sll LS UNCHECKED Increase hi Infantile Paraly. ss Deaths in N. 'V Fight Against Outbreak ou ' Arnd W'indsor. New York Reportee-The epidemic of infantile paralysis still le uncheek- ed, ihe deity report of the Health De- partment shows. The bulletin issued to -day reports a slight inerease in deaths ttnd a mall decrease in the nuMber Of new ease yeeterday. Dur - Mg the twenty-four•hour perlea end- ing at 10 o'clock thia morning, there wore 134 new cases and thirty-five fit- talities from the (Hecate) reported in the five boroughs of. Now 'eerie City. MILD CAiel4S IN ONTAItlee Windsor Report,---Itepresentatives of the tiettitit Mania or %elation Waliterville, Ford, Sandwich East and Weet, and Ojibway, met at the City Hall this: afternoon with Dr. J. W. S. McCullough, Chief Medical Health Of. ticer for Ontario,. who came to Wind - or this morning to inveatigate the outbreak of infantile paralysis on the Canadtait frontier, With Dr. McCul- lough was Dr. J. G. Fitzgerald, assist- ant professor of hygiene at Toronto University. The conclusions reached by the YIS. itiug health officials were that the ten children suspected Of being infected with infantile paralysis are really out tering with it mild type cf the disease. The local authorities were urged to see that the quarantine in all suspect- ed cases wets maintained for six weeks and that the contacts, the parents mut others, ware segregated for two week. The importance of locating as soon as poseible the origin oe' the caseswas also emphasize'd. Dr. McCullough congratulated the Windsor Health Board on the prompt measures which have been taken here to prevent caildren congregating at playgrounds and swimming pools, and further dwelt upon the necessity of putting a stop to the selling of ice cream on the street by veneers. No food ef any kind should be sold from exposed wagous or by persons of sus- Picieus cleanliness. Dr. Fitzgerald spoke of the outbreak of infantile paralysis in New York, 'minting out that it was very .gradual at first, and hinting that this province might be at the beginning of it very serious eptdemic in case the necessary precautions were not observed. "Nearly all the Windsor cases are of the spinal type, which is not the most highly dangerous type," said Dr, Fitz- gerald. "The mild cases, however, are often the most dangerous for the ma- jority of them are without symptoms and pass unnoticed by parasite until it to too late." SliJ RT ITEMS OF THE NEWS OF THE DAY ExcessiveHeat Causes 56 Deaths in Chicago in Twenty -Four Hours. EMT FISHERS SUNK Hespeler Boy Takes Highest Entrance Standing in Ontario. London has obtained an extension of its Sunday street eta, service. Lieut. Creaser of Owen Sound re- ceived the Military Cross for bravery. Joseph Downey, aged 38 110 St. John's Road, Toronto, was leilled by a C.P.R. engine. Mr, Fred Dane of the Ontario Li- cense Board, was appointd Loan Com- missioner for Nev Ontario. Sir Pierre Landry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, died at Dorchester, al, B. It was annunced in the Canada Gazette that the International Nickel Company has been ificorporated in Canada. The Imperial Oil Company announe. ed a reduction of 10 cents in the price of crude oil, making the present price $2.03 per barrel, Prof. Daniel Buchanan of Queen's, has refused an offer to become pro- fessor of Mathematics at McMaster University, Toronto. Canadian Chinese according to an order issued at Ottawa, can stay out ot the country until after the war without having to. repay the toll tax. Arthur Smith, the 17 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L, Smith, wale drowned at Cornwall in front of Dr. McDougald's summer home on the east front. A. McAllister, 25 years old, who came to Aurora, Out., from Scotland five years ago, was drowned in Lake Wilcox while swimming in fifteen feet of water. Excessive heat is believed to have caused the deaths of fifty-six persons in Chicago during one recent twenty- four hours, according to reports made by the police and Coroner. A German submarine has raided a British fleet of fishing boats. Eight of the vessels were sunk, The crews were landed at the North Sea port of Tynemouth. The body of William Robert Casey. farmer, of the second concession of Huieingdon, was found in the woods near his home. He had apparentIY been dead for more than a day. He was 69 years of age, It is thought his death was due to heart failure. The results of the entrance examin- ations show that Alphonse Smells, of Hespeler, a pupil in the Galt Colle- giate Institute there, has taken tho highest standing in the provinee, ap- ing the only ciendidate to secere hon- ors in both parts of the examinations. The following report on the Mem' posamia anemign was issued by the British War Office: "The Mesopota- mia situation is quiet and unehatiged Two of our gunboats were fired on from the banks of the Euphrates River. Our boats replied, inflicting casualties, A naval officer and five men were wounded." FAMILY NEARLY DROWNED. Brockville Report—Chas. Hendee. son, a Prescott merchant, and his wife and four children narrowly maned being drowned, when returning home on it motor boat last night, They Col- lided with another craft in which waa an American Immigration inepector ahd his engineer. A large hole Wail torn in the Hendereen beat, which filled opidly and oink. Much difficul- ty was experienced In rescuing the Henderson family, —.woe "Do you think it will be possible to settle all international differences hereafter without war?" "No," repliee Senator Sorghum. "At beet theiree bound to bp, a war of words."—Wash- ingten HUN MURDERERS CONVICTED BY THEIR OWN OFFICIALS Execution of Capt. Fryatt in Sharp Contract to Clan MacTavis Case, German Commander of Moewe Admitted He •Did Natural Thing. Leaden Cable.—A. ;contra* is drawn by British naval officers at the treatment by the Germans of Captain Fryatt and of that meted out to the captain of the British steamer Clan AlacTavish, wIten the steamer was sunk in a fight with the German com- merce raider lifthewe. The contrast 'Was drawn from the account of Com- mander Count von Dolina-Sehledien, commander of the Moewe, in les book describtng the cruise of the raider, sense extracts of walch bave reached the officers. Count von Dohna-Schlodien, in de- scribing the capture of the Clan Mac- Tavish, tells how he admonishedthe captain of the steamer for his fool- ish conduct in resisting the Moewe, but says the captain defended him- self on the ground that his Govern- ment had supplied him with a gun to resist capture. "To confess the truth," says Count DohnaeSchlodien in his book, "1 was pleased with the loyalty with which this old Scotch sea hear defended his standpoint. I shook his hand, and ad- mitted that, in his place, I should probably have actet; 3u5t as he had. I still think so." HIS HOME TOWN MOURNS, Harwich, England, Cable.—The news or the execution of Captain Fryatt by the Germans was received with much indignatien here and in the neighboring town of Dovercourt, where he was very popular. Captain Fryatt had lived all his like at Parkes- ton, a suburb of Dovercourt. He leaves a widow and several children. Locally, Captain Fryatt was nick- named 'The pirate's terror," on ac- count of his skillful evasion of sub- marines on several occasions. He had the reputation of being one of the most daring commanders in the Great e.lastern Service. Friends describe him as having been gentle and inof- fensive, a man of high honor and a fearless navigator. He was held- in universal esteem here, GERMANY'S EXCUSE. Berlin, via _London, Cable.—The executicn at Bruges on July 27 of Captain Charles Fryatt, of the Brit- ish steamship Brussels, after trial by court-martial for attempting to ram a German submarine, denotes a new phase in the controversy over the sea rights of merchantmen. The German Government prize reg- ulations, issued before the beginning of the war, adopted the principle that merchantmen were not entitled to commit eats of war, and it threatened to treat as pirates those attempting to do so, • The execution of Captain Fryatt, German officials contend, is 14 ac- cord with that principle which, ac- cording to the German view, merely extends to sea warfare the principles aiready controlling francaireur ac- tivity on land. It is hoped in official circles here that this case will lead to a definite clearing up of the question of mer- chantmen acting at intermittent Vanes as war vessels, HUN LEADERS CONCURRED. London Cable.—According to a report from Maestricht, Holland, for- warded by The Hague correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company, the question of Captain Fryatt's execu- tion was discussed at the Imperial Cerman headquarters in reply to a telegram from the Duke of Wuerttem- berg announcing the sentence and asking for its confirmation. This was telegraphed immediately by the War Council, wlech included Emperor Wil- liam and General von lealkenhayn and other staff officers, all of whom are eaid to have been in agreement on the justice of the sentence. ONLY TO BE EXPECTED, New York Report,—With the ex- ception of the Tribune, the New York . papers this morning do not comment on Captain Fryatt's execution. Tbe Tribune says: "In the year in which Captain Fry- att made the fatal mistake of at- tempting to save his ship from de- struction, Germany's licensed sub- marine assassins torpedoed and sank forty. unarmed British vessels with- out the slightest warning of any kind. These adored heroes of the Father- land succeeded in a single year in slaughtering more than two thousand helpless men, women and children. But their victims were noneombatants —hence what they did was fair play, and in no case comparable to the criminal attempt of Captain Fryatt to defend himself. The revenge of the German Government is what might be expected. The eowardly method of warfare that has made the Ger- man navy distinct from all others has been worthily upheld. Chivalry in this case would ha ve been grossly incon- sistent," GIVE Hilli TIME FOR REPENTANCE Exclude•Germany for Gen- eration From' Trade. Sir Geo: Foster's Plan for Punishment. London Cable. The members of the Royal Colonial Institute have sel- dom listened to a more eloquent speech than thaeedelivered to -day by Sir George Foster at the luncheon given in his honor. In the presence of a distinguished gathering, presided over by Earl Grey, Sir George urged the immediate adoption of a vigorous trade policy, excluding all things Ger- man.. 'There are to -day, in our midst, he said, men in responsible places who are actually pleading that Germany must be allowed time to recuperate as one of the nations of the earth despite raethods she had adopted of outrage, pillage, violation and base betrayal of friendship and hospitality. "I say that for at least a genera- tion after the war German business men should be excluded from the pale of the British Empire to give them a good long time to repent, but we should be sure they do repent. Then let them tome' and pray to be re- admitted into neighborhood and fel- lowship with decent civilization." When. Sir George dealt with the at- titude to be adopted towards neutrals, he was roundly applauded. "Let up remember," he said, "that they have not shed ait ounce of blood in this Armageddon. We in the do - tenants and you at home have been severely chastened and taught some of the feelings of Gethsemane. Will anyone then deny us the right to treat the Empire and its partners more favorably? Let us Pay to the others, 'We will not be unreasonable with You, but we will be just to our own.' When the war is over the na- tions that had banded themselves in defence of the ideals for which they Were fighting should have the duty of teeonstructing the basis of their at- titude towards each other so that it may be more favorable than that tic- cerded to neutrals, but we must be or- ganized just as well for peace eine in order to reeserVe the Empire for its peoPle." Tariffs will net helP, nor did he hold out the leaat hope that the Em- pire could be brought together en baSta of free trade. As regards trade, commerce mil produetion, one thing was essential -a -Ivo should got together at core and hatenner out a policy for the future. DANK STOOK 13V TENDER. Ottawa Report,- - The Ityal Bank hae given =tie° through the Canada Gillette of its intention to Pell by ten der the whole or any portion of the 1,610 filmes of new emelt issued in January. These shares constitute the unaccepted allottrnent and fraetione which under the provisionof the Bank Act wore not allotted, The fAtoelc is to rank for dividaid from date of payment. MONS CHEER THE SOLDIERS British Trades Federation Congratulates Gen. Haig, Who Thanks Those at Home for Co-operation. London Cable.—(Montreal SGazette cable)—The following telegrams have passed between the management of the committee of the General Federa- tion of Trade Unions and Si- Douglas Haig: "The management of the committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions, representing over a million British workers, sends sincere con- gratulations to you, to your staff, and to your heroic soldiers, on the success- es nchieNed since July 1; also wishes for speedy recovery of wounded, and expresses deepest sympathy with rela- tives of those who died in defence of hotor and civilization—Appleton, sec- retary." This is General Haig's reply: "Your inspiring message has appeal- ed to us all. On behalf of my staff, the army in Prance and: myself, 1 beg to express to the members of the Gen- eral Federation of Trade Unious our warmest thanks for the kindness in congratulating the British army in France on its success. All ranks real - Ise how much this success is'due to the patriotism, self-denial, and whole- hearted ceeoperation of their brother workers at home.—Douelas Haig." suits DEFEAT BULGARIANS In the Battle Just Fought in N. W. Greece. Enemy Driven From Their Positions, London Cable.—A battle has been fought between Serbian apd.aulgarittn troops in Northwestern Greece, in which the Bulgarians Were defeated. The following Oficial report on the migagenient was given out to -day at headquarters: "The Serbians engaged the Bulgar- ians, who wore advancing through Creek territory %teeth of Verdun, near liboraha. After a sharp engagement the Bulgars wcre driven from their positions, which the Serbians wit - vied. 'Ilia German official report referring to operatims on thp Balkan front P,ays: -Mee% tine northeteet of Wilma minor cngaminents 'have occurred In the foreground of the Bulgarian posi- 1 tient. The enemy suffered consider. nblo losses." r