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BRITISH NURSE IN BELGIUM CONDEMNED TO DEATH

Germans Charge Edith Cavell with Aiding Enemy; Ignore Appeals for Mercy. Special to The Great War Project. (2-5 October) The British nurse, Edith Cavell, sits in a German prison in occupied Belgium, awaiting her fate. According to numerous accounts of her case, Cavell, a British nurse working in Belgium when the war breaks out, is…