THE KILLING OF NURSE CAVELL.
A CIRCUMSTANTIAL STORY
EXECUTION REGARDED AS A
BLUNDER
LONDON, Nov. 30. The New York correspondent ol The Times states that Mr Frederick Shuld, a broker, has returned from Berlin with a circumstantial story regarding the execution of Nurse Cavell. He says that in German military and diplomatic official circles the execution is now regarded as a blunder, and unfavorable in its psychological result to the German cause. To thirty soldiers was assigned the task of execution. The rifles of twenty of the men were loaded with blank cartridges. Miss Oavell, who was weak and helpless m her cell, was led into the courtyard and seated on a chair. She fainted and fell on the paving^'and. the soldliers begged for permission to shoot instantly. Tlie officers wished to revive her, but the men said the delay was beyond human endurance, and' the officers then permitted them to shoot. Only one bullet struck Miss Cavell, penetrating her-brain.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1915, Page 2
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160THE KILLING OF NURSE CAVELL. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1915, Page 2
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