Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE]

PROCLAMATION.

The tribunal of the imperial German council of war sitting in Brussels has pronounced the following sentences : Condemned to death for conspiring together to commit treason: Edith Cavell, teacher, of Brussels. Philippe Bancq, architect, of Brussels. Jeanne de Belleville of Montignies. Louis Thuiliez. professor at Lille. Louis Severin, chemist, of Brussels. Albert Libiez, lawyer, of Mons. For the same offense the following have been condemned to 15 years’ hard labor: Hermann Capiau, engineer, of Wasmes. Ada Bodart of Brussels. Georges Derveau, chemist, of Paturages:— Marv de Croy of Bellignies. At the same sitting, the war council condemned 17 others charged with treason against the imperial armies to sentences of penal servitude and imprisonment varying from two to eight years. The sentences on Bancq and Edith Cavell have already been fully executed. The governor general of Brussels brings these facts to the knowledge of the public that they may serve as a warning. The Governor of the City. GENERAL VON BISSING. Brussels, 12th October, 1915. —{-Treason-means the-opposite of patriotism. but the German word “wal■-treason ,, means loyalty to patriotism at the riskot one’s life. Acts of war-treason are acts done by the inhabitants of an occupied territory, on behalf of their native country and their fellow-countrymen, for whicfi the German ‘ miirtary code prescribes the penalty of death. Edith Cavell and her companions had done such acts and well knew what awaited them if they were discovered. It was in this that their heroism lay.]