of Brussels.
Albert Libiez, lawyer, of Mons.

For the same offense the following are condemned to fifteen years of
hard labor:

Hermann Capiau, engineer, of Wasmes--Ada Bodart, of Brussels--Georges
Derveau, druggist, of Paturages--Mary de Croy, of Bellignies.

At the same session the Court Martial has pronounced sentences of
hard labor and of imprisonment, varying from two to eight years,
against seventeen others accused of treason against the Imperial
Armies.

As regards Bancq and Edith Cavell, the sentence has already been
fully carried out.

The Governor-General brings these facts to the attention of the
public in order that they may serve as a warning.]

The trial began on Thursday, October 7th, and ended the following day.

On Sunday afternoon the Legation learned from persons who had been
present at the trial some of the facts.

It seems that Miss Cavell was prosecuted for having helped English and
French soldiers, as well as Belgian young men, to cross the frontier
into Holland in order that they might get over to England. She had made
a signed statement admitting the truth of these charges and had further
made public acknowledgment in court. She frankly admitted that not only
had she helped the soldiers to cross the frontier but that some of them
had written her from England thanking her for her assistance. This last
admission made the case more serious for her because if it had been
proven only that she had helped men to cross the frontier into Holland,
she could have been sentenced only for a violation of the passport
regulations, and not for the "crime" of assisting soldiers to reach a
country at war with Germany.

Miss Cavell was tried under Paragraph 58 of the German Military Code,
which says:

Any person who, with the intention of aiding the hostile Power or
causing harm to German or allied troops, is guilty of one of the
crimes of Paragraph 90 of the German Penal Code, will be sentenced
to death for treason.

The "crime" referred to by Paragraph 90 was that of "conducting soldiers
to the enemy" (viz.: _dem Feinde Mannschaften zufuehrt_).

It is manifest that this was a strained reading of the provisions of
military law; that a false interpretation was wilfully put upon these
provisions in order to secure a conviction. This law was obviously
framed to cover the case of those who assist stragglers or lost soldiers
t