Correspondence with the United States Ambassador respecting the execution of Miss Cavell at Brussels.

Date:
1915
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Credit: Correspondence with the United States Ambassador respecting the execution of Miss Cavell at Brussels. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Inclosure 2 in No. 6. Mr. Whitlock, United States Minister in Brussels, to Baron von der Lancken. (Translation.) Bruxelles, Brussels, Excellence, le 31 aotit, 1915. Your Excellency, August 31, 1915. MA Légation vient d’étre informée que MY Legation has just been informed Miss Edith Cavell, sujette anglaise habi- that Miss Edith Cavell, a British subject tant Rue de la Culture 4 Bruxelles, aurait residing in the Rue de la Culture, été arrétée. . Brussels, is said to have been arrested. Je serais fort obligé & Votre Excellence I should be greatly obliged if your si Elle voulait bien me faire savoir si ce - Excellency would be good enough to let renseignement est exact, et, dans laffir- me know whether this report is true, and, mative, quelles sont les raisons de cette if so, the reasons for her arrest. I should arrestation.. Je lui saurais gré également also be grateful in that case if your Excel- dans ce‘cas, de bien vouloir faire parvenir lency would furnish this Legation with the & la Légation l’autorisation nécessaire des necessary authorisation from the German _ autorités judiciaires allemandes, pour que judicial authorities, so that M. de Leval M. de Leval puisse conférer avec. Miss may consult with Miss Cavell, and even- Cavell, et éventuellement charger quelqu'un tually entrust someone with her defence. de sa défense. Als fle ih Je saisis, &c. T avail, &e. BRAND WHITLOCK. : BRAND WHITLOCK. Enclosure 3 in No. 6. Mr. Whitlock, United States Minister in Brussels, to Baron von der Lancken. (Translation. ) LE Ministre des Etats-Unis présente THE United States Minister presents ses: compliments. 4 son Excellence M. le his compliments to Baron von der Lancken Baron von der Lancken, et a ’honneur de and has the honour to draw his Excel- lui rappeler,sa lettre du 31 aoft, con- lency’s attention to his letter of the 31st cernant l’arrestation de Miss Cavell, lettre. August, respecting the arrest of Miss i laquelle il n’a pas encore recu.de Cavell, to which no reply has, yet been réponse. - | received. _ Comme le Ministre a. été, par dépéche, As the Minister has been requested by prié de’s’occuper aussitét de la défense de telegraph to take charge of Miss Cavell’s Miss Cayell, il serait fort obligé & son defence without delay, he would be greatly Excellence M. le Baron von der Lancken obliged if Baron. von der Lancken would de bien vouloir le mettre i méme de _ enable him to take forthwith such steps as prendre immédiatement les mesures éven- may be necessary for this defence, and to tuellement nécessaires. pour cette défense, answer by telegraph to the despatch et de répondre par télégramme 4 la dépéche- which he has received. qu il a recue. . ‘Brucelles, le 10 septembre, 1915. Brussels, September 10, 1915. Enclosure 4 in No. 6. Mr. Hugh Gibson, Secretary of United States Legation, Brussels, to Mr. Whitlock, United States Minister on Brussels. Report for the Minister. Sir, | American Legation, Brussels, October 12, 1915. UPON learning early yesterday morning through unofficial sources that the trial of Miss Edith Cavell had been finished on Saturday afternoon, and that the prosecuting attorney (‘“ Kriegsgerichtsrat”) had asked for a sentence of death against her, telephonic enquiry was immediately made at the Politische Abteilung as to the facts. It was