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Show BELGIAN HOPES 10 EM SIM Gaston de Leval Is Eager !f' to Testify Against Bru-" Bru-" tal Hun' Baron. I; Barely Escapes With His Jt Life During the Trial of Edith Cavell. ::. ' BRUSSELS, Aug. 9. (Bj tho Asso-:: Asso-:: iated Press.) If Uaron von der v: .aickcn-Walkenitz, civil governor, and s: -warded by many as the real ruler oi' i: BclKi""1 during the German occupation, i: is brought to trial at the Old Bailey in London, there will be present an g?;uscr whom Laueken tried to send ' ' to the firing squad at the Tir National. ' Tlut man 18 Gaston de Leval, a '' Belgian ailornej', legal counselor of the ; jlmericau IcgaUon, and special aid to ' tbe American ambassador, Brand Whit-look, Whit-look, and Hugh Gibson, secretary of " the American legation, during, those dirk days of the German occupation in ::; Bcljiau. There is bitter hatred between Baron Lancken and the Belgian "attorney, who risked his life in his attempt to save - Mis Edith Cavell, the British nurse, i- i rom execution. Had it not been for the intervention of Ambassador Whit-! Whit-! .btk and -Mr. Gibson, a firing squad ': mi'ht have entertained de Lival on t -. the morning of October 21, 1915. J1;: Baron Is Taunted. . De Leval accompanied Mr. Gibson ':'-when, on October 11, the American sec- e relary went to protest to Von der i LunckfU against execution of the death i : B'jntHii'C upon Miss Cavell. While the its Spanish minister, the Marquis of Vil- if lalobar, was arguing with Von der c' Lancken, who. refused to intervene, the .Si Ocrman caught sight of Do Leval and i(; cxi.'lainved: i "There is an- enemy subject, what jp is he doing hero? " Marquis Villalobar and Mr. Gibson ! immediately recognised that Von dor t,; Lanclicn was attempting to create a. x - diversion, jund requested L"c Leval to ,j withdraw. The latter refused, saying o) tu Von der Lancken: "1 shall live to lirosrcute you at your trial.'' Von der ,s; Lanc'ken asked Gibson to dismiss L)e (: Leval from the service of the American H -legation, but Gibson refused, i,. A few rlaya Inter Von der Lancken ,,e " came raging to the American legation, hearing a copy of an Eoglish paper jj.- vilh the story of the execution of Miss jjj'i' -avcll, including ' Mr. Whitlock 's re- V'irt to the slate department, Gibson's 'r( narrative of the events, and Le Leval 's j;'. legal coiK'lusionii. " Removal Demanded. is: .B!. "Tliir imfirfw-Lmal will have to be rrniaveO fr.irn the American legation," mi,) Vr-n der r-ancken. , "Under mili- :, larv law he should be tried by a court wartial; t would recommend that the most severe penalty be visited upon 0him." On Oelobor CI. 1 9 15 , Von der Lfihcken j:. returned lo the lejiation and demanded w I hid De Leval be' given up. Mr. Whit-,r:( Whit-,r:( . If . It refused. Do Leval went to Lon-(I'm. Lon-(I'm. where ho remained throughout the ' War. L. Vnn der Lancken a parting 6ally to If:'0 Leval was: "We shall meet' again. " . ' ))o Lcvnl retorted: ."1 am sure tlie . I'lriiNiirc will bo all mine." .And tow - they may meet at. tho Old Bailey. |