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Show ILL RUT EXECUTE ! . em mi Assurances Given by Germans Ger-mans to Great Britain on Caledonia Executive. LONDON", Tpc. 10, 3:50 p. m. In the house ot' comniona today A. Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, said the j German foreign office had piven a?pur- j ance tiiat (,'nptain .lames Blaikie, taken; prisoner by the Germans at the time the British steamship Caledonia was sun It, , won hi not share, the late of Captain Charles l-'ryatt of the Rritish steamer Brussels, who was put to death after be-i be-i ing convicted by German court-martial ! on the charge that his vessel attempted j to ram a German submarine. It was i added that Germany considered the j ( 'aledonia an armed cruiser and that Bap tain Blaikie in attempting to ram the submarine was merely performing his duty. |