Here we have another of these international obscurities.

To Fritze the step seemed natural and obvious; for Anglo- Saxons it was a hand laid upon the altar; and the month was scarce out before the voice of Senator Frye announced to his colleagues that free speech had been suppressed in Samoa.
Perhaps we must seek some similar explanation for Fritze's short-lived code, published and withdrawn the next day, the 23rd.

Fritze himself was in no humour for extremities.

He was much in the position of a lieutenant who should perceive his captain urging the ship upon the rocks.

It is plain he had lost all confidence in his commanding officer "upon the legal side"; and we find him writing home with anxious candour.
He had understood that martial law implied military possession; he was in military possession of nothing but his ship, and shrewdly suspected that his martial jurisdiction should be confined within the same limits.