The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-22
GERMANS DID.
NOT LIVE Up To.
PROM|SEMADE
Executed Miss Edith Cavell
and Broke Faith With
American Minister.
REPORT IS MADE
PUBLIC IN LONDON
Woman Was Shot by Ger
mans for Aiding French
Soldiers to Escape.
REPORT IS MADE
PUBLIC IN LONDON
~ AssoCIATED PRnss.

London, Oct. 21.-Apparent lack of
good faith on the part of the German
authorities in failing to keep a prom
Use to the American minister IN con-
nection with the sentence of Miss
Edith Cavell, the English woman ex-
ecuted at Brussels for aiding the es-
cape of allied soldiers, was set forth
in a report of the affair made by
Brand Whitlock, the American Min
lister to Belgian.
The report sent Ambassador Page
here was made public tonight. Ac-
cording to the report Hugh S. Gibson
sought out the German governor of
Brussels bate at night before the ex-
ecution, with the Spanish minister,
Gibson pleaded with the governor and
German officers for the English wo-
mans life after the Germans had
failed to inform the American lega-
ton, as they promised.
Gibson reported he emphasized this
failure to the German governor, but
no steps were taken to stay the exc
cution.
The Mail says the report is a long
one and adds:
''This account will strike note of
horror throughout the world. It will
tell Of the wonderful heroism of wo-
man who had nursed German woun-
died.. It will tell of the greatest fight
for woman's life that was ever
fought, of unavailing efforts of mobiles
and neutrals to combat the callcus
secret and cunning of the Germans. .
The Post publishes to day letter
from Miss Cavell's cousin concerning
her devotion to her work as nurse
"My cousins intense devotion tc
the alienation of suffering caused her
to devote her life to nursing in Brus-
sells" the letters say.
"She voluntarily remained there tc
continue her work when the city was
taken by the Germans She woulc
have nursed German with as much
tender care as an Englishman.
'1n a letter to me she said:
"sWe have no wounded here now
The allies do not come here and the
Germans are sent back to their owl
country. The few that remain are
nursed by their own country women
SO that we are denied the great con
ISOLATION of being Of use in our owl
special way
"She allowed the womanly qualit!
of compassion to get the better o.
prudence and self interest. For thi
she has suffered untold miseries ant
died martyrs death"
English newspapers drew paral
lei between the case of Miss CaveI
in Belgium and that of Mrs. TOuisl
Herbert, who was sentenced 70 si1
months imprisonment as a spy II
England. Mrs. Herbert's appeak wa
heard at Durham yesterday. She il
a German, wife of an English curat,
at Darlington. She admitted that sh,
had sought information regarding
munitions and intended to send thi
information to Germany. The judg,
asked her yesterday:
did you intend to send the infor
nation to Germany If you had 60
the chance?"
Eyes, I did," she replied.
Mrs. Herbert also admitted she ha
correspondent with Germany throug
friends in Switzerland. The judge
astonished by her frank answers, re
marked:
'sThis woman has conscience-sh
wishes to answer truthfully and do
serves credit for that. Al the sam
time she is a dangerous.
He affirmed the sentence of 81
months Imprisonment.
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