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SL I .ini s cuUip’ln;].; rin ease of Captain CharU’S Fry-alt has been classed with that of I Edith Cu veil, the I British nurse who j wus executed by the Germans. Cap-j tain Fryatt was commander of the British steamer Wrexham on March UK, 11)15, when the German submarine I'-S3 ordered the Wrexham to ■ slop near the Maas lightship. Cup-I tain Fryatt, acting as he afterward said under orders of the British admiralty, attempted to ram the submarine. The German U-boat narrowly escaped by diving, lits ex-plod was hailed in England us a brilliant one and no attempt was made to keep his identity a secret. Instead the British admiralty gave him a gold watch for his “brave conduct'’ mid lu* was mentioned in the house of commons. Thus the Germans learned the identity of the mariner who had attempted to sink their submarine-More than a year afterwards, on June HI, I Dili, Captain Fryatt was captured by the Germans, together with the steamer Brussels which he I was pdoling from Hottcrdmu to Tilbury, German warships took the Brussels into Zeebruge. About a month later, July 23lh, the announcement came from Berlin that | Captain Fryall had been executed by shooting after a trial before a German court martial. The German odieial statement declared that the Captain was executed for n i ‘ fratfu tirciir crime” against armed German sea forces.
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Lewisburg Greenbrier Independent
Lewisburg, West Virginia, US
Fri, Jul 11, 1919
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