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Show Attempts to Compare Edith Cavelle With Mata-Hari Resented in France. PARIS, OcL 20. The Associated Press today asked Julius Cambone, general secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs, if he had seen the at-: at-: tempts of the German press to point ' out similarities between the executions I of Mata-Hari and Edith Cavelle. M. j Cambone replied: ! "The German audacity ,in daring to compare Mata-Hari with, Edith Cavelle surpasses belief. Miss Cavelle was a woman respectable and respected, and devoted to charitable work. She was shot for aiding Belgian soldiers to escape to Holland. This, in German eyes, may bo a crime, bt not one that endangered thei- arniy.- - -' "Mata-Hari was a courtesan. It was believed that she was a spy and head of a spying system. Her correspond- I ence showed that she receved money J from Berlin. She herself personally admitted that she was one of Germany's Ger-many's qhief spies in France who used the relations she had been able to make by her mode of life. She merited no indulgence. No compari- I son is possible between charity and I spying." |