NURSE CAVELL.
LONDON, October 28. Replying to a question of whether Nurse Cavell was guilty of a military offence under The Hague Convention, Sir E. Grey said it was not necessary to raise technical or legal points regarding an act the reprobation of which was widespread throughout the •world. The case rested upon higher considerations than mere legal details. We w r ere under no obligations towards Germany respecting declarations of conventions, but he hoped that, regardless of Germany’s acts, we would continue to observe the considerations of humanity, which w r ere independent of declarations or conventions.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3216, 3 November 1915, Page 20
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