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Show GERMANS EXPLAIN FRYATFS DEATH Berlin Claims British Are Trying Try-ing to Confuse Facts Regarding Re-garding Captain's Execution. Berlin, Aug. 8. By wireless to Say-vine. Say-vine. "German newspapers discuss British comment In regard to the : execution of Charles Fryatt of the British steamship Brussels, declaring unonlmously that British commentators commenta-tors are attempting to confuse the facts by pretending that the captain ; 7MJneu,C6d t0 death because he : nd,d hraself against aggression," sajs the Overseas News Agency. As a matter of fact, the sentence was i imposed because he undertook a 1 treacherous surprise attack on a Ger- i man submarine in order to gain the : prize promised for the destruction of a submarine. , iJ"Fhf newsPaPers Insist furthermore ' liSL?1?1" never admitted the un- I i ? rlSt of defense, and that it Is STth Whxere Great Brlta,n ees 52iS u , standpointv inasmuch as British legal service views are de- I pendent upon considerations of expedl- i ency and not of justice. For exam- ?Ie'i l"et British war of btarvatlon 1 against the unarmed population of 1 Germany is absolutely opposqd to International In-ternational law. t n,l'A t0Jh JndIKnatlon shown by SJngI1?h Press' 016 German news- I rZL rGfer le the raurder f men on 2 naSfw ubn?ar,ne by the British 1 Brmi at BaralonS to tho case of the rinSSi tfawler KInk Stephen which JSSiVS save the cw of the ( wrecked Zeppelin L-i9, and J SlMh?? f.the Irlh- ThSy Xo re miiiHS heroflne of Ioos recently was j made tho recipient of a British decSSI tion for 'the cowardly and treacher- ?I ous murder of five German soldiers.' " jl |