12 APRIL 1919, Page 2

A German Committee sat last week to inquire inter the

murder of Captain Fryatt. It decided that the Court-Mattial which-eons damned Captain.Fryatt acted in accordance with "international law." It expressed regret, however, that the sentence had been carried out so rapidly. If anything could have deepened our feeling about that shocking, crime, for which Admiral Schrader is believed to have been primarily reeponsible, it would be this attempt of the new German Government to whitewash the criminals before the Allies have presented .a demand for their punishment. The German Committee's decision is worthless. All we can say for it is that it betrays an uneasy conscience.