New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-23
Press United in Denounc'
ing the Cavell
Execution.
SNUB TO AMERICA
IS SEEN BY SOME
Explains Why World breads
German Success, Says
Another.
The World.

az, is worse than a crime; ~ 10
blunder." said Fouche OF Napoleons
summary execution Of the young DUO
d'Enghien. The action Of the German
military authorities in Belgium VINO
executed Edith Cayell. an Englisn
nurse. belongs likewise TO the class OF
blunders that are worse than crimes.
Everybody who Is not German knows
that the Germans might better have
lost an army corps than 70 have shot
his woman for the comparatively
trivial offence that she committed. Her
blood will blot the honor Of the Ger
man army and the German government
| for generations 20 come. II is one OF
/ those stains that cannot be erased, and
centuries hence German historians VII!
| be apologizing for the ruthiessness OF
military commander VINO was unable
/ to see that common sense Is mlghtler
than the letter of military law.
The Sun.
Nothing is more pathetic IN the
/ Cavell case than the unfortunate
woman's realization that mercy was
not 10 be expected from the military
Governor of Brussels, saws The Sun.
She admitted her offence, the aiding OF
wounded British. French ard Belgian
soldiers to escape; concealed nothing,
equivocated nothing, disdained to SHOW
weakness in the presence OF her
judges, and met her fate without raj
tering.
To all Germans who have not been
corrupted by Prussian mllltarism the
| hurried, steslthy shooting OF hapless
Edith Cavell in the dead Of night be-
hind prison walls Will always De a
bitter memory. More than all the
counts in the Bryce report of atrocities
in Belgium it will weigh in the scaio
Of judgment, for IL has struck the
world with horror
The Times.
Germany has brought herself into
position where the world turns from
her in horror and breads nothing so
much as the success of her arms.
"The executoners OF Edith Csvell
but carried out the spirit and purpose
of the imperial military policy. They
did their part in the working OF the
brutal, monstrous engine. Il is because
Of this spirit, of these purposes, OF sucn
deeds as that d. Brussels, that GER
many has lost her standing among civ.
ilized nations devoted TO the ideals OF
humanity and of progress; it is be-
cause OF these things that the prayer
goes up in all the peaceful countries
Of the earth that her enemies may trl-
umph, 10 the end that such ruthless
rule may not be established in power
upon the earth
The Herald.
There might as we'll have been no
American Legation in Brussels.
} II will be noted that the Ger
man government subsequently sent
demand TO the Spanish govern
ment stating that the carrying out OF
the death sentence in the case OF two
French women for whom the Spanish
Minister was pleading jointly with the
American Legation had been deferred.
There is no record that IL sent any
communication TO any one connected
with the government of this country.
Count Reyentlow has given the ex-
PLANTATION. Judging from the general
tone of the German press, this country
is to be judged as friend or foe Of
Germany entirely by its dealings with
Great Britain. IL is 20 be expected
that resentment will be shown in other
ways, even perhaps to the extent OF
reviving the Friends of Peace and
the German American Alliance on
American soil.