The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-23
Death MISS CAiEll
. STIMULATES RECRUITING
BRITISHERS OF MILITARY AGF,
ARE FI.OCKING TO THE
COIORS.
Tier Execution Has Done More "a
Encourage Recruiting than the
Lusitania Affair or Zepre.
lin Raids.

LoNDON, Oct. 23.-Recrusting
offices have taken advantage of the
impetus given by Miss Cavell's ex-
ecution in Brussels and are pushing
their campaign throughout the
British Isles today. The Cavell case
is being used openly to stir up
feeling against the Germans TO the
pitch where men of suitable mill
tary age cannot resist the impulse
to enlist, Army officials say that
nothing. not even the Lusitania in
cident nor Zeppelin raids, have done
so much to cause men to rush t.
the colors as the Cavell execution.
The death of Miss Cavell, it Is
said, she has served her country as
effectively as she did during her
life.
The story of the execution as told
in the report OF Brand Wiitlock.
American minister to Belgium,
which the English press printed
yesterday. has been effectively
strengthened by story from Rev.
Henry S. T. Gahan, German chap
lain who had an hours interview
with the condemned woman and. ad-
ministered the last holy communion
shortly before she was shot.
'She was brave to the last; she
professed Christian faith and said
she was glad to die for her country,
and died like heroine" said the
German military chaplain.
1.-The wanton barbarity," says one
newspaper in referring to the Ger
man military system. which came
in for a fresh denunciation by. the
London press today. at the news
that American Minister Brand Whit
lock mad not been able even to OBJ
tain the delivery of Miss Cavell's
body to the Belgian school for nur-
ses, Of which she was the head The
burial. he was informed, took place
near the scene Of the execution, and
the civil governor professed to him
that it was impossible 10 have II
disinterred without written order
from Berlin which he promised he
would try to secure.
Members of Miss Cavill's family,
while expressing the heartfelt hope
that her death might aid in a re-
cruiting campaign. deprecated any
idea of revenge. A memorial ar
London for Miss Cavell has been sug
gested.
The British general public
agrees with the Cavell family that
the view of reprisal is out of the
question. Such treatment by En-
gland of German women, no matter
what the Germans might do, was
declared to be out of the question
The story that Miss Cavell was one
OF the leading spirits in wide spread
organization engaged in getting Bel
gians of military age out OF the
country is secuted at. That she of
Tended against the military law is
admitted, but all accounts are de
clared to agree that she did 50 Incl
dentally and in small number O
cases.
Accounts continue to differ con
cerning the details OF her death
The latest version is that the Ger
man soldiers in the firing squad de
liberately aimed so as not to XIII ans
that the commander finished the jol
with his pistol. This story, while
not official. differs so much from
other unofficial versions that 1t Il
not generally accepted.
The effect OF the pope's reported
protest through Cardinal Hartman Z
vhe kaiser against the killing O
women is unknown here.
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