Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-22
NURSE EXECUTED
+. BY THE GERMAN
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Despite Efforts of Americans to
to Save Her Miss Edith
y Cavell Is Shot
2 ~aa4s
GERMAN AUTHORITIES
FAIL IN PROMISES
British Public Greatly Aroused
BY German Ac-
ton

0y 0eIWa0 AC-
ton
London, Oct. 21.-The full! report Of
the circumstances of tine condemna-
tion and execution of Miss Edith Ca
veil, an English woman and mead of
the training school in Brussels, for
helping English, French and Eelgian
soldiers to escape from Belgium, made
by B. r.. Whitlock, the American min
lister at Brussels, to Ambassador Page
at London, was ISSUED by the British
government this evening.
How the secretary of the American
legation, Hugh Gibson, sought out the
German governor, Won Barr Langen,
late at night before the execution
and with the Spanish minister plead.
ed with the governor and the German
officers for the English woman's right,
is plainly related in memorandum
from Mr.. Gibson This document
makes reference to an apparent lack
of good faith on the part of the Ger
man authorities in failing to keep
their promises to inform the Ameri-
can fully of the trial and sentence.
Minister Winthrop telegraphed to
Ambassador Page on the 18th inst:
miss Cavell sentenced yesterday
and executed at 2 o'clock this morn
ing !, despite our best efforts contin-
ued until the last moment rs
j ,Ss.,.t 53g ii Futile ApneaIs.
Minister Whitlocks appeal was in
ihe form of note sent by a messen.
ger on the night Of the 11th inst. to
Gov. Won Earr Langen:
'iMy Dear Baron: am too sick
to present my request myself, hut
appeal to your generosity of heart to
support it, and stay from death this
unhappy woman. Have pity on her!
Yours. truly, @ 4 ID
"BRAIND WF1InLOCK. -,
Mr.. Whiuock also stated that Miss
Cavell had nprsed German soldiers. Il
no" Breach Of Faith ,tJgsti
Secretary Gibson's report says that
Conrad, an, official of the German civ
il branch, gave positive assurances on
the 1I1th inst. that the American lega-
ton would ibe informed of the devel-
opments. in the case. 4,r-l ar .a8va
Gibison's report. to, Minister Whit
lock continues:
"The circumstances of the case
were explained to Won Barr Langen,
and your note was presented. He ex-
pressed disbelief in the report that
sentence had actually been passed and
manifested some. surprise that we
should give credence to any report
enNanating from unofficial sources.
He was quite insistent on knowing
che exact source Of your information,
but this did not come to him.
The report adds tnat Won Barr Lam
gen was induced to inquire as to the
status of the case. AZ. As.f III,
Take Rapid Action. g. lr.
'fHe.. telephoned to the presiding
Judge of. the court:nartial and return
ed to say .the facts were as we had
presented, them and that it was in
tended to carry out the sentence be.
fore morning. e,; .5 9assss.g,
I'VE then presented as early as pos.
sible our plea for delay.
81 even, went so far as to point out
the fearful effect of summary exc
cution Of this, sort on public opinion
lbota here. and abroad, and although
I had no authority for. doing SO, called
attention to the possibility that it
might bring about reprisal."
English Say "Murder."
Tho stow, of tho iovocution of Edith
Cavall, as told in the correspondence
sent by the American minister at
Brussels to the Ambassador at Lon
don and printed in full in the British
morning papers, it is predicted, will
send a wave of Indignation through
out the country.
In Trafalgar Square, yesterday, all
heads were barred to the memory of
Miss Cavall. One speaker, holding a
whig in his hand to be placed on the
Intel of the Nelson Column to her
memory exclaimed:
"Who will avenge the murder of
this splendid English woman!"
Aids in Recruiting.
In response to this appeal many
new recruits came forward. The Lon.
don papers in editorials while pay
ing tribute to, the nne efforts of the
American diplomatic representatives
in her behalf, cursed her execution as
"the most danlnable crime of the
war"
The Daily Telegraph says: "The
documents are record of such foul
and damnable infamy as all Ger
many's bloody crimes in this war
cannot equal, for this was. cold, cal
culated and deliberated murder. Not
Heaven itself nor the virgin of all
the Angels can find an amediatory
explanation"
TELEPHONE BY WIRELESS, ARl.
IiNGTON TO PARIS.
Arlington, w. Va, Oct. 21.-Oper-
atorS here talked by wireless tele.