WAR TRAITORS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 284, 27 August 1919, Page 7

WAR TRAITORS

i THE BETKAYER OF NURSE CAVELL i A CONSCIENCELESS WASTER ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright s Paris, August 25. i The depositions against Quicn, -who is . on trial for having betrayed Nurse Cav- » ell to the Germans, states that he is an - intelligent scapegrace, and has frequentt lv been in prison. He was released in i September, 19H, and was then penniless. i The Germans plied him with money, and t found him a willing tool. 3 He met,a girl named Balligan, who was - working for Nurse Cavell's organisation. 3 She. believing him loynl, offered him i service in the organisation in order to 1 regain France. Thus Quien learned the > whole 6yetein. Mademoiselle Thuliez s etate-s that she introduced him to Nurse 1' Cavell. but suspected his exaggerated pro--5 fessions of patriotism; Quien , reached >. Holland, posing as a French officer, bvit . returned to Brussels. Several members • of the organisation were "arrested a. few > days .later. Quien actually foretold Nurse ' Cavell's arrest shortly before it occur- • red.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • .THE EDITOR"¥"ECLAIR" ; .ANTI-BRITISH DURING THE WAR.' i , ' Paris, August 25. , Lenoir. while awaiting execution for - communicating with the enemy, made : statements reflecting on Judet. Tho lati ter and his. mother, during the trial,- ad- ' mitted that negotiations had occurred for \ the purchase of the newspaper "Eclair." ! Lenoir's execution hns been delayed while i Judet is prosecuted. Judet was eoni snicuoiis for his anti-British activities i during the war. The "Eclair" whs sus- ■ pended for a fortnight in 1915 for dealing . with documents in which the Germans ) alleged that Belgium had granted a free i passage to French troops—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn..