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Show ORDERED EDITH CAVELL SHOT Blame for Nurse's Execution Placed on Von Sauberzweig. Had Power to Stay Execution In Order to Give Time for Appeal to Emperor for Mercy, but Refused Re-fused to Exercise It. London. Responsibility for the execution exe-cution of Edith Cavell, the British nurse shot during the war In Brussels, has now definitely been placed at the door of General von Sauberzweig, according ac-cording to the Brussels correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The death of Miss Cavell has generally gen-erally been attributed to General von Bisslng, at that time governor of Brussels, Brus-sels, but a letter from Baron von der Lancken to the German foreign secretary, secre-tary, which has but recently been made public, relieves that official of this slur on his name, the correspondent correspond-ent writes. It is also established that General von Sauberzweig had the power to stay the execution In order to give time for an appeal to the emperor for mercy. To accomplish this, General von Sauberzweig would have had only to withhold his confirmation of the sentence of the court-martial. Baron von der Lancken was In Brussels at the time as an observer for the German imperial chancellory. He wrote the following letter: "The Cavell affair Is known to your excellency In all Its details. The effect ef-fect of it has been what I predicted to Von Sauberzweig in an interview I had with him without, however, being able to shake him from his point of view regarding the opportuneness of the execution." General von Sauberzweig as successor suc-cessor to General von Kraawel, was ordered to Institute a reign of terror In Brussels, the correspondent declares, de-clares, and throughout his administration administra-tion arrests and 'ondemnaHons followed fol-lowed one another without cessation. |