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Show LONDON, July 29, 9:10 p. m. The foreign office today published the communication com-munication it sent to the American embassador, em-bassador, Walter Hines Page, concerning concern-ing the case of Captain Fryatt. The communication states: "His majesty's government finds it difficult to believe that a master of a merchant vessel, who, after German submarines had adopted the practice of sinking merchant vessels without warning warn-ing and without regard for the lives of the passengers or crew took the step which appeared to afford the onlv chance oi saving not only his vessel, but the lives of all on board, can have been shot deliberately in cold blood for his action. "If tho German government has in fact perpetrated sncii a crime -in the case of a British subject held prisoner bv them, it is evident that a most serious se-rious condition of affairs has arisen. "Tbo foreign secretary, therefore, is obliged, on behalf of the government, to request that an urgent inquiry may be made by tho United States embassy i n Berlin as to whether tho report of tho shooting of Captain Fryatt is true, in order that the British government may have, without delay, a full and undoubted un-doubted account of the facts before-thein. before-thein. "(Signed) "Foreign Office, July 29. ' ' The communication adds that Emas- sador Page sent to Foreign Minister Grey in answer to Wa notes of July 18 and 20, the following paraphrase of a telegram from Embassador Gerard at Berlin: "July 27. Referring to your telegrams tele-grams I brought tho case of Fryatt to the attention of the imperial foreign office in writing on the 20th and the 22d, and requested an opportunity to engage counsel. A verbal reply was made yesterday, stating the trial had been fixed for today at Bruges it added add-ed that the foreign office had requested request-ed a postponement if possible. I have today received a written reply stating it was impossible to grant a "postpone- ment as German 'submarine wtnt-s-s.: could not be detained further. "Major Neumann has been appoint': ' by the German authorities to defer. Fryatt. He, in civil life, is an a: ' torney and justizrat (queen's ., sel.)" |