SCENE OF GREAT TRAGEDY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2051, 4 December 1924, Page 6

SCENE OF GREAT TRAGEDY.

WHERE NURSE CAVELL DIED. I wonder how many English people are awaro of the character of the monument which marks the spot where Miss Edith Cavell was shot (says an Evening Standard writer). This is at the National Riue Range—-the Tir National, as it is called—on the outskirts'of Brussels. It is a long onestoreyed building. Entering it you find a series of galleries with penthouse roofs overlooking the ranges. Eivo or six hundred yards away are the grass-covered molunds of the rifle butts. It was 0(11 one of these railed galleries that the German firing party stood. Miss Cavell was placed on a chair only a few feet—about 12ft at the most—from the executioners. The bullets as they passed through her then sped along the ranges. And the monument On the spot where the chair rested Tk a slab of white stone. In this stone are sunk four brass discs about the size of a penny. They project about a quarter of an inch above the stone, and they mark the ends of the four legs of the chair on Miss Cavell sat when she was shot. It is one of the most extraordinary monuments in the world, and certainly one of the most affecting. It seems to re-create that early morning scene most vividly. I happened to be there osi the day, in the summer of L 922, when it was visited by the King and Queen. The Queen was obviously most affected as she looked dowu on that simple memento of a great tragedy.