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Show PAYS TRIBUTE TO MURDERED WOMAN Belgian Lawyer Says Edith Cavell, Executed Exe-cuted by Germans, Died Like a Heroine. NEW YORK, Sept. 13. A tribute to Edith Cavell, "one of the most courageous coura-geous of women, who died like a heroine, hero-ine, ' ' when executed by the German armv authorities as a spy for aiding wounded soldiers, was paid here today by Gaston de Leval, the Belgian lawyer who defended her, at a luncheon by "the Rotary club, at which he was a guest of honor. "Some of the reports of her execution execu-tion stated that she had fainted before the tiring of the fatal volley,'' said M. De Leval. "but this was untrue. A few minutes before leaving the death cell she made a notation on her bible that she was to be executed at once. In admitting ad-mitting that she had assisted the wounded wound-ed British soldiers to defy the German authorities she said nhe had done what any other good woman would do.'' "The Future of Belgium" was the subject of M. De Leval 's address, and he said the people of that ravaged country coun-try are now looking forward hopefully to "the end of the war next year," antl the restoration of their nation. "So far as German brutality is concerned," con-cerned," said the lawyer, "conditions have changed slightly for the better. The Belgian people, however, are still suffering greatlv for the want of food." |