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Show uu WHEN MEMORY RECALLS. Many of the large papers of the United States and England arc republishing repub-lishing Brand Whitlock's description of the trial and execution of Edith Cavell by the Germans in Brussels in 193 5. The recalling of this awful tragedy enacted by the Germans is due to the finding of the grave of Miss Cavell in a cabbage patch near Brussels. Nothing so enraged the outside world as the story of the brutality of the Germans . in their execution of the English nurse, and the recital at this time mny have a bearing on the peace congress, because it will tend to harden hard-en ihe hearts of men who might otherwise other-wise feel disposed to be lenient in dealing deal-ing with tho enemy. In 1915 the Germans in Belgium gave no thought to the possibility of a day of reckoning for them. They were a law unto themselves, and they plundered, plun-dered, shot and murdered until they grew tired of the sport and then turned to the bestial pastime of outraging women and young girls. At last the day of judgment is at hand, and long arms should stretch out to draw in those barbarians. ' Little German homes should not be molested, in fact should be protected, but big Gorman brutes, who played the part of savages from 1914 up to the summer of 1918, must be brought before be-fore a court of justice. I no |