GOSPEL OF FRIGHTFULNESS.
EXECUTIONS IN BELGIUM
PRINCESS SENT TO GAOIi,
(Received Oct. 20, 4 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. Oct. 19
. (loueral yon Bissing. Governor ot Belgium, has rtlacardod the Belgian town Trails with notices oi' ccwrtmnrtial sentences for espionage.' Five death sentences were parsed. They comprised Miss Cavell, the Brit; ish nurs^i, Counters Jeanne de Belleville, Madame Thirliez, a French teacher, Phillippe D'Any, an arcliiteot, and Severm, a chemist. Four others, including a woman, were, sentenced to fifteen years' hard labor. Princess M-iria de Croy brol^e her umbrella -over a German officer s' back for insulting her at Ostend. She was sentenced1 to ton years hard labor. ■ r Three Belgian women and a £ renoh woman were .sentenced to death elsewhere, v ;
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 5
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119GOSPEL OF FRIGHTFULNESS. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 5
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