NURSE CAVELL

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1928, Page 2

NURSE CAVELL

GERMAN DOCTOR’S STORY. (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) BERLIN, Feh. 21. Doctor Gottfried Bonn who was officially present at the execution of Edith Cavell, tells the story for the first time. Ho found two platoons each of twelve men waiting at the shooting range where the Belgian engineer. Broque, convicted of complicity with Nurse Cavell was also present. Soon another ear, containing Nurse Cavell and a priest, drove up. Nurse Cavell s face was like a mask, hut her gait was staggering owing to muscular impediment.. though she walked without hesitation, to a place between two posts where Broque stood. She stopped for a moment to tell the priest “I am glad I am dying for England. Other women are sacrificing their husbands, brothers and sons, 1 only me lile.” She asked the priest to send her last message to her mother and brothers, who were serving with the British Yrmv in France. Nurse Cavell and Broque "'ere quicklv blindfolded and tied to posts M ,, p„. yards distance. Muse t.uo remained upright a few mnnites, though she had twelve bullets through bor heart and lungs. “] went to the post, found her dead and closed her eyes, and then assisted to place the body in a small jelloa coffin . which, was interred secretly. Dr Bctm understood that - " IM (Tivoli had helped three hundred soldiers and Belgian civilians ar.oss the Dutch frontier.