ENGLISHWOMAN EXECUTED

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 8

ENGLISHWOMAN EXECUTED

FOR AIDING HER COUNTRYMEN. LONDON, 16th October. The United States Ambassador has informed the Foreign Office that Edith Cavell, lately head of a training school for nurses in Brussels, was arrested in August and executed on 13th October. It is understood that she was charged "with harbouring fugitive British and French soldiers and Belgians of military age, and assisting them to escape to Belgium to join the colours. (Received October 18, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 16th October. Miss Cavell was the daughter of a former Vicar of Swardeston. The news of the execution has sent a thrill of horror throughout the country. GERMAN METAL TRUST MUST BE BROKEN, UP. LAXITY OF IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES. {Received October -43, 8.30 &'.m.) LONDON, 17th October. "The public and politicians," says the Evening Standard, ' ' should consider how the German Metal Trust, with its internatipnal ramifications, c,an best be broken up and superseded by organisations of .undoubted British constitution. The Australian Government has 'been doing its utmost to achieve this ■end since the war - broke out, but its efforts have not been adequately seconded by the Imperial Government, which has been, content-to -buy from an agency known to be of German derivation, and a mere agent for the German- Trust. - A full statement in connection with the Merton case from Whitehall would be welcome. ' ' RIOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA TEN ARRESTS MADE. GENERAL SMUTS AND THE NATIONALISTS. * (Received October 18, ,9 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, 16th Oct. T,en men," bearing Dutch names, and a' woman, have been arraigned in connection with the not at Newlands. Evidence was given that while General Smute was speaking, he was violently accused of murdering Fourie, also of causing the Rand strikes. One of the prisoners shouted, "Kill him!" and the others jumped on a table, exhibiting and kissjng photographs of Fourie and Beyers. General Smuts, at Potchefstroom, replying to the Nationalist cry, "Botha and Smuts must go," declared that he would like nothing -better than deliverance from the hell in which he had lived for two years, but that the Government must stick tn the people to the end. He added that if the Nationalists after the election found themselves in a small minority and went into armed protest they would again have martial law.