NO SENTIMENT IN WAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18323, 15 February 1934, Page 7

NO SENTIMENT IN WAR

NURSE CAVELL CASE: TOOK RISK OA SPY LONDON, Feb. 5. Mr. A. Duff Cooper, financial secretary of the War Office and Lord Haig’s biographer, explained to-day that his reference to the execution of Nurse Cavell was merely to show that, soldiers are not always right'.' Mr. Cooper had already stated that German soldiers were wrong - over Nurse Cavell, “who was justly executed, according to the rules of warfare, but any politician could havb told them, that by executing one woman they wp,uld arm 100,000 men against Germany. “The time for sentiment is past,” he said to-day. “If ever-a. woman was justly executed according to the rules of warfare it was Nttrse Cavell. She was noble and courageous, but used hex* position as a. nurse to help English soldiers to escape. . “Nurse Cavell knew spying was terribly dangerous, but courageously took the fisk and accepted the penalty, which adds to her glory. “Another instance where politicians were right and soldiers wrong was the German military’s .decision) to carry out a relentless submarine campaign, which caused America to enter the war. .. , \.*\

Air. Lloyd George says the next two volumes of his memoirs,, giving correspondence of Lord Haig, will reply to Air. Duff Cooper’s criticisms. Air. Cooper’s reference to Nurse Cavell is featured in German newspapers, which declare that it is noteworthy because “the shooting of Nurse' Cavell was used as anti-Ger-man propaganda in wartime in a most unbridled manner in order to prove that Germans waged war as barbarians.’?"' .-'V;' V. Air. Cooper-?s-statement, it is stated, now confirms the Gorman repudiation of this charge. ‘ ‘ All. doubt about : Nurse Cavell s espionage activities are thus dispersed. -The -penalty for. her offence was and is death,’’ it is added. .. ._