Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-23
FRENCH WOMAN SHOT
LIKE MISS CAVELL BY
GERMAN FIRING SQUAD
Another Victim Reported Exc
cuted by Teutons in Belgium
as Co-Conspirator of
Dead Nurse
ALL ENGLAND AFLAME

LONDON, oct 2S.-The excitement and
resentment which swept through England
following the execution OF Miss CaVen by
a German firing squad in Belgium was
intensified today by the statement OF the
Amsterdam correspondent OF the Daily
Mail that another woman was recently
shot to death by German soldiers at
Liege
The Daily Mails correspondent wired as
follows:
THE Telegrasf states that the Ger
mans executed a French woman. Mile.
Louise Frenzy, at Liege, a fortnight ago.
The firing party purposely aimed low and
she was hit only about the legs. The Ger
man officer then shot her through the
head with a revolver
Seldom have the people been aroused
TO such a pitch. Miss Cavell. the British
nurse. Is called the modern Joan OF Arc.
Special services will be held in her mem
ory in churches tomorrow. Sir George
Frampton, the famous sculptor. has
offered TO model Miss Cavell as national
memorial. Suggestions are pouring to
the press from every station OF life as TO
reprisals and memorials for the nurse.
II is suggested. among other things. that
a "Cavell regiment be raised.
The first German version Of the execu-
tion Of the English woman has arrived
here, and IL sets up the contention that
her execution was necessary as an Eek
ample"
Herr wertheimmer. the Brussels cor
respondent of the semiofficial Wolff News
Agency, in a lengthy article upon the
Cavell case. declares that the woman
was I'm a plot to help men of military
age leave Belgium.
The Wolff version was received here
from Amsterdam, and says in part
Evidence was secured to show an or
ganized plot TO enable men OF military
age to leave Belgium. despite the orders
OF the German military authorities to
the contrary. The leaders in this plan
were a Belgian and some French aristo-
Gratis. The plot was promoted by S5 pris-
oners. two-thirds Of whom were women,
including Princess Maria de Croix, the
Countess de Belleville and Miss Edith
Cavell.
The headquarters OF the conspirators
were in the English Women's Hospital.
The evidence showed that Belgian
architect, NJ. Baucq. was Miss Cavelrs
chief assistant, and the activities of these
people extended over many months.
Hitherto the courts dealt very mildly
with these ofteuses, but this time it was
advisable that greater severity be em-
ployed as a warning to the Begians to
obey the orders of the Governor General.
Taking instant advantage of the i'm
petus given to army enlistments by Miss
Cavells execution, recruiting officers were
pushing their campaign vigorously
throughout the British Isles today.
The Cavell case was used openly as an
argument, as a means of stirring up feel
ing against Germans to a pitch where
men suitable for military service cannot
resist the impulse to fight them.
Army officers declared no incident of
the war, not the Lusitania incident, nor
the Zeppelin raids, nor any appeal by the
King or his advisers had been of so much
help to them in bringing the material
they wanted with a rush to the colors
BY her death. they said, Miss Cavell had
served her country as effectively as she
did during her life. '.c