NURSE CAVELL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3890, 3 January 1929, Page 3

NURSE CAVELL

“SHE WAS NOT A SPY.” BELGIAN ADVOCATE’S TRIBUTE. Maitre de Leval, Who defended Nurse Cavell, told at an Armistice celebration dinner at the Authors’ Club, London, ifche story of Nurse Cavell’s trial, sentence and death. The speaker s_aid he had heard some people, even in England, say that she iwas rightly killed because she was a spy. ‘She was not. Even the Germans never said that she was. In all the statements made in the indictment against her there was in each case only one charge, “Procuring soldiers to the enemy.” All that she wanted to do was to save soldiers from death, and she declared before the |Gourt: “I acknowledge that through my intervention 200 men have been led up to the -frontier.” Nurse iCavell died on October 12, not, as some people had said, by collapsing at the execution post |and being shot by a German officer. She died courageously, as heroically as a soldier. -Maitre de Leva! said that after Nurse iCavell had been informed of her death sentence she answered: “I have no fear or shrinking. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.” Maitre de Leval exhibited the notice, which, was posted in Brussels of the execution of Nurse Cavell. It was in French, German and Flemish.