LODY'S LAST LETTER.
" I SHALL DIE AS AX OFFICE!;. NOT AS A SPY."
On the day before he was shot at the Tower of London Hans Lody, the German spy. sentenced to death after trial by court-martial, on charges of war treason, bade farewell to his relations at Stuttgart in the following letter :—
"My Dear One,—l have trusted in God, ai.d He has decided. My hour lias come, and I must start on the journey through the dark valley, like so many ol mv comrades in this terrible war of nations.. May my life be honoured as a humble offering on the altar of the Fatherland. A hero's death on the battlefield is certainly finer, but such is not to be my lot, and I die here in the enemy's country, silent and unknown, but the consciousness that I die in the service of the Fatherland makes death easy. The Supreme Court-martial of London has sentenced me to death for military conspiracy. To-morrow I shall be shot here in the Tower. It is a consolation to me that I am not treated as a spy. I have had just judges, and I shall die as an officer, not as a spy. Farewell. God bless you.—Hans."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15825, 23 January 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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205LODY'S LAST LETTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15825, 23 January 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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