NURSE CAVELL
GERMAN’S ATTEMPT. TO SELL A RECORD IN ENGLAND. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyr igb t.) LONDON, September 8. “The Times’s’’ Berlin correspondent says: “Christian Burger, who was a clerk in the office of the German Governor at Brussels, when Nurse Cavell was executed, has been deprived of one tenth of his year’s pay for offering to the British Museufn, the record card whereon the particulars of Nurse Cavell are entered. The museum authorities refused to pay £12,500, which Burger demanded. Burger left a portfolio, containing his correspondence in a train, and it was handed over to the authorities, who charged Burger with trying to sell war documents to a'foreign power. The Court declared that it was beneath the dignity of a State officer to make money in such a manner and the the record card was placed in the German War Museum.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1931, Page 5
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