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returned to France.
last defiant
country and
awaited the
m es
con-
shat-
He was sent to North Africa,
in October, 1918, Quien was ar-
as the betrayer of Nurse
Georges Quien, Betrayer,
Gets New Trial in France
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Betrayer of Edith Caved on a 20 Year Sentence Secures
A Rehearing Through His Jailor
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A BROKEN MAN
A correspondent of the U.P. tells
of visiting Georgp Quien, the- most
notorious criihlnai now in the french
Prison at Clairvaux. He goes on to
•say;
Clairvaux, France—Cringing, curq-
od as a Judas, an outoast among out
casts, the most despised man in all
•of France is living out here a 20-year
sentence.
He is Georges Caston Quien, 50,
convicted betrayer of Nurse Edith
Cavell. She died with a smile in
1915 at the hands of a German firing
squad.
The look of a beaten • dog that
comes into Quien’s eyes when the
name Edith Cavell is mentioned, the
broken vehemence with which he
denies his guilt of the most dastardly
of all crimes, has brought him but
short laughs of scorn from all but ■_____
Director Roc pf the Clairvaux peni-! fc.r theft.
• tentlary here where Quien is a con-'
vict.
M. Roc is so cinvinoed of Quien’s
Innocence, so sure that there has been
a miscarriage of justice far worse
than tho execution of a guiltless man,
that he is trying to have Quien’s sen
tence reviewed, hoping at least
have it shortened.
But whore could Quien go? He
wealthy, but of what avail would
• his wealth except to enable
hide his identity from other
“I am suffering a Calvary,”
United Press. “Mine is a
• Dreyfus case.”
Even if he convinced the
that sentenced him, could
vince the
of soldiers With a
sage of Vide in her
tempt of death, she
terlng close range volley of her exe
cutioners,
A barked command, the crash of
fire and Nurse Cavell dropped dead.
Hardly had the fumes of smokeless
powder curled up from the muzzles
of the firing squad’s lowered rifles be
fore a revulsion at realization of the
full horror of a war to the death went
echoing around the world.
Quien soon left Brussels, and wan
dered through the German prison
camps, talking to allied'soldiers as a
shown him by Ger-
allied prisoners of
friend Favors
mans made the
war suspicious.
In 1916, Quien
! He was arrested immediately and sen-
. fenced to six months imprisonment
At the expiration of his term, Quien
was forced to go into the French
army.
There,
rested
Cavell.
There was
fence—-death,
court debate,
posed on Quien.
But doubt arose,
natural prejudice
demned man because cf the stigma
that attached to
*
to
is
be
tohim
men?
he told
second
world?
Story of Others
the story as it is
powers
he con-
told byI-Iere is
others:
For 40 of his 50 years, Quien has
been in almost constant trouble. He
-had served two prison terms before
this one.
Though a Frenchman, a native of
the Aisne district, he was not, with
but one possible sen-
After
this
’two weeks
sentence was im-
even despite the
against the con-
l
‘ cusation that he
crime.
The sentence
him
was
by tho mere ac-
guilty of such a
changed to onewas
of 20 years imprisonment.
Now, in the prison Imre, Quien is
figthiug for freedom.
He has no friends
world. Even his
ed him.
Prison Director
people believes in
and as the press
with him, and he pressed a bell to
give orders for Quicu to be brought
in the outsido
lawyer has desert-
Roc alone of all
Quien’s1 innocence,
representative sat
liBBf
Is He The Betrayer?
HIS LAST CHANCE
4 The most despised man on earth, Georges Quien, alleged betrayer
Edith CaveVin a French court denies his guilt,
bled him caused the martyr-nurse’s death.
Of
He says a spy who resem-
WHAT MEMORIES TO OUR VETERANS!
Nouve Chapelle will recall Gurkha, Rathan and Sikh to many a Canadian. . A memorial to the Army
India was unveiled there recently. The Maharajah of Kapurthala, M, Leon Perrier, Marshal Foch and the Earl
of Birkenlioad Inspected the guard of honor. ■ _____________ _____..
Kemal Pasha Ends London Losea
Long Harangue | Famous Old
President Makes Impassioned ; City Building
Appeal to Youth of
Turkey
Angora, Turkey,—Mustapha Kemal
Pasha, president ot Turkey, concluded
his eight-day harangue before the Na
tional Assembly with an impassioned
appeal to the youth of Turkey and
future generations.
“Even when all appears, lost,” he
said, “when tho enemy occupies the
country, when the nation is exhaust
ed, you, youth of Turkey, apd future
generations, will not forget that your
first duty is to defend and preserve
the independence of the Turkish re
public, and you will find the necessary
force in the noble blood running
through your veins,”
This appeal followed upon a recital
of events since September, 1924,
which made the republic secure on a
firm foundation, and an' allusion to
social reform, such as abolition of the
fez, closure of the schools and con
vents, adoption of the Swiss civil
code, consecration of women’s liberty
an dtho abolition of polygamy. .--------—--------
East and West
Kobe Herald; The British in
East do not give tongue to their sus
picions of the Japanese so freely as
do the American and Dutch, but they,
as a race, are not outspoken, and,
moreover, until recently they were in
alliance with tho Japanese and con
siderations of decency doubtless exer
cise a restraining influence. Had
they been without misgivings and
fears, however, the scheme for. tho
establishment of the Naval base at
Singapore, would never have con
ceived.
the
military at-
Nurse Ca-
condemned
six months'
mili-
Ger-
Great Britain spends three times
. as much for war pensions as does the
(The ■ united States.
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dozen
whom
boo, a
a 16-
She was
land, and I carried out numerous mis
sions for the French
tache,
“Foi' collaborating in
veil’s work I was twice
by the Germans, once to
imprisonment at Antcwerp
"Often I handled important
tary documents.
"I never was in the pay of the
mans,
“I lost because I had a double,
equally tall as I and otherwise closely
resembling me. He was named Ca-
vier, and he was a German spy.
"Cavier succeeded in working into
the circle that contained Nurse Ca
vell and others who eventually were
shot. It was he who cost them their
lives.
“.Also Nurse Cavell had a
German nurses, anyone of
might have betrayed her.
“Nurse Cavell had with her
German girl she had adopted,
ye&r-'old mamedi Paulinjo.
a loose-tongued though well-meaning
child, who gossiped constantly and
could have talked to.o much.
“It is among those whom I have
described that you must look for
Nurse Cavell’s denunciator,
“I was the victim of a hostile press
campaign at a time when passions
still- w^ero white hot.
“I swear I never touched a penny
of German money.
“How unhappy I am!
“My parents have died. They left
me their fortune of several hundred
thousand francs, but of what good is'
it to me? I am 50 and I haven’t much '
hope for the future. i
"If I could get a good lawyer and
tell him my story there would be a
scandal.”
There Quien broke down. Tears
welled in his eyes and he sobbed un
reservedly. With his face buried in
his hands, he was led back to his cell,
to serve his long sentence ,as dead
to the world as the heroic nurse, of
whose betrayal he was convicted.
M. Roc has been successful in gain
ing a rehaaring.. It is progressing.
Only the future can say what Quien’s
future will be.
The Protection of the Worker!
Quebec Evenement (Cons.): ("’
Quebec Government is improving th» .____ _ __
conditions of employees’ insurance,). I The fiction that a Scot has little
sense of humour was destroyed in a
certain club recently. Ono of the
members embarked upon a long-
winded, funny anecdote which he told
very badly. In the end he was re
warded by a few feeble smiles, but a
.Scot, looking down his nose at the of
fender, rapped out, “Man, there are
several humorous versions of that
sto-ry. Why don’t you learn one of
them?” _____
In the assets of the Province of Que
bec the moral courage and the indus
try of its population counts for a
great deal. Legislation which will
protect the worker against accidents
of his occupation serves the cause of
the general public by assuring to the
worker more ease of spirit and social
contentment. . . . The first to gain
by it is the manufacturer, for every
act of justice of thiXkind contributes
to the stability of economic condi
tions. ... By co-operating with the
authorities to help in the application
of better laws for workers, our indus
trialists
looking
terests.
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“You know, darling, of course, I’m
dying for us- to get married, but I
can’t see how we shall ever,afford it.”
“Oh, that’s all right, dearest. I have
a parson friend, and I’m sure he’ll do
it for nothing."
must realize that they are
after their own particular in-
Bilingual Reports
Devoir (Ind.): M. Belcourt
wrote the other day: “I have always
been convinced that the day the Eng
lish-speaking Canadians realized what
Regulation XVII. really meant, the
cause 'would be won. . . It will
be the same, in our opinion, in the
matter of the use of French in Gov
ernment departments and official
documents, The principle is laid down
in the Constitution, and few people would dare openly to ’ depute it. The
difficulty is in putting it into prac
tice. There is also the difficulty in
the fact that the English-speaking
majority, never having to wait for
, their papers, and never receiving a
i document written in a different lan-
I guage from their own, do not experi
ence the grievance which the French
minority naturally feel.
Le
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Progress Affects “The Bank”
Bast: Vestige of Blue Coat
School 300 Years Old is
Being Demolished
London—The last vestiges of the
building? which for over 300 years
; housed the famous Blue Coat School
, In London are very shortly to dlsap^
pear, and so will vanish from the
metropolis, all traces of an Institution
which was in many respects unique
In characted, The school itself,
Christ’s Hospital, to give it its proper
name, -moved into the country 25
years, ago, and many of its buildings
were then pulled down to make room
for extensions to tho General Post Of
fice, but part of the original quadra
ngle and cloisters remained- On this
the house-breakers have now been set
to work, and before many days aro
past there will not be left one brick
upon another to remind Londoners of
the famous old school which counts
Coleridge and Charles Lamb among
its alumni.
It was Edward VI who, moved by a
sermon of Bishop Ridley on the duty
of the rich “to- be merciful unto the
poor,” gave to tbo city of London tho
old monastery of the Grey Friars to
provide orphans and poor men’s chll-
dren “with meat, drink, clothes, lodg
ing.” At first the governors of tho
foundation took in babies only a few
months old, but the accommodation
available was not unlimited, and very
soon the age of admission had to be
raised to four .years, to be changed
again to seven years before the end
of the seventeenth century.
By that time a grammar school had
been added to the foundation, and a
school where instruction in the "art
of navigation and. the whole science
of arithmatique” was given to a sele
cted class of boys who were to be
come “Captaines or comanders of
Shipps.” But if we are to believe
the famous Mr. Pepys, who as an ad
miralty official had must -to do with
the administration of this side of the
school’s life, many difficulties beset
the governors at this .time. Mathe
matical masters were hard to get, and
harder still to keep; one flatly refus
ed to “sit publicly in the school,” an
other, we are told, quarreled with the
nurse, and a third was found to be In
capable of teaching “the doctrine of
the globes.”
From early days, tho Loys of the
foundation wore a distinctive livery,
and this remains little, changed to
this day. Originally it consisted of a
blue gown, knee breeches, yellow
petticoat and stockings, whiW neck
bands, and a blue cap. The petticoat
and cap were given up some 70 or 80
years since, but otherwise the “Blue
Coat” boys are still garbed as they
were 350 years ago.
■otlio’ Frenchmen, mustered into thez
army at th-e outbreak of the World
War. He was serving a term in jail
for theft when the German army en
tered St. Quentin in 1914 and made
him a double prisoner.
With other civil prisoners, Quien
was taken to Landrecies. There, as a
trusty, Quien adopted the name of
"Doctor Caduret” and began the il
legal practice of medicine.
Among hid’ patients, the false doc
tor met Jeanne Balligan, who told
him of a plan by^whieh hundreds of
wounded soldiers were being smug
gled to the Dutch frontier and back
to their home countries.
According to tile original .charges
-against him, Quien succeeded in
working his way into the secret com
mittee of 10 that was directing the
smuggling.
Posing as a doctor, a lawyer, an
army officer, and even as a military
attache, Quien made himself trusted
by the allied patriots who were risk
ing death a dozen, times a day at the
hands ol such a traitor as he.
Thus* Quien met Nurse Edith
Cavell, at whose hospital, in Brussels,
he took refuge July 8, 1915.
One week later Miss Cavell, Prin
cess de Croy and others operating the
“under-ground railroad” were ar
rested and tried.
Four, including the devoted woman
whose name has become a symbol of
the spiritually glorious side of war,
wore sentenced to death by a Ger
man courtmartial.
Nyrse Cavell made no complaint.
She knew the rules of war, and that
they were not always softened hi
mercy to women.
a Bravery of Nurse
4 One morning she walked. With ^rene face and firm step out from
her prison cell to face a firing squad
into the office, he said he was press
ing ti e ministers oil war and justice
to levlew the case.-
Into the little office of M. Roc, the
prison director, Quien walked won-
deringly—for ordinarily visitors are
not admitted to this rigorous peni
tentiary, immense, forbidding. Once
it was a monastery. It was founded
in the 12th century by St. Bernard.
Prison Nickname
It was easy to see how Quien had
won his prison nickname .of “Double
meter”—two yards. He Is nearly six
feet, six ^inches tall. He would at
tract attention anywhere.
Quien responded readily tos several
questions I asked him. Then I said:
“I want to ask you about Nurse
Caypll.”
Qulen’s huge frame seemed sudden
ly to collapse into a mass of un
healthy flesh. His face blanched.
Cowering, he covered his face with
Ills liugethands. Then his story came
With a rush of broken sentences:
“I am not guilty! I am not guilty!
“If you knew the real story of my
Cavlary you would pity me.
“I have sinned often, I regret, But
never—never—did I denounce Nurse
Cavell.*’
Alone with his awful thoughts foy
nearly eight years, Quien appears to
have constructed a hole-proof de
fence.
“I am the victim of judicial er^
rors,” ho continued. “It Is my past
history that has convicted me.
“My lawyer tried hard to save me;
but he |ias lost interest, tfow J
never hear from him and he doSd'ho-
thing to re-opoh ihy case.
“I am tired of’fighting. I am be
coming resigned to my fate,
“But I am not guilty. My life dur
ing the ‘war was a, dfama. I escap
ed; from the occupied territory to Hol*
Dolling Up Ma.
Ralph Conrow of Unadilla has been
making improvements on the mother
Mrs.. Mary Conrow. He has made
improvements on the inside and paint
ed the outside.-—Bainbridge (N.Y.)
paper.
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GETTING READY FOR LARGER THINGS
The “Old Lady of Threadneedle Street,” the Bank of England, .closed
her door a few days ago, but only to open a new- one. The rebuilding of
the bank is progressing while business is still being carried on. The old
door had been in use since 1825.
When a girl's complexion goes to
pot its usually returning whence it
came.
“I look forward every”Sunday to the
after-dinner nap.” “I thought you
never slept after dinner.” “I don’t,
but my wife does.”
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"Jack,’ the girl said reproachfully,
“you wouldn’t ’ marry me for my
money, would you?” "Not if there
was any other way to get it,” he said
thoughtlessly.
English Locomotive Goes 76 Miles An Hour on U.S. Road
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SPEED MARK SET BY ENGLISH TRAIN
Baltimore.^—Tho fastest and most powerful lovomotiye in $uroj)fc, (ho ‘(Kluis V” of England’s Great
Western Railway, completed a 290-miile tost run over ’Baltimore & Onio tracks recently and startled officials, oij
that i-oad by hitting a 76-miIo-an-hour speed with Its throttle only 71? per cent open,
“Cut that out — I Pipe down there”—A voice somewLore Id the dynamo-meier car, which contained tlio
Instruments and dials, said as the speodomoter quivered upward. Some one picked up a telephone receiver and
the hand dropped back to CO. ‘
Laborers, office workers and motorists along tho route from Baltimore craned their necks and Btruok amus
ing poses as the Hthd Whippet o£ the rails, resplendent in dark green paint and shining brass, swept by With
ooftcheS. ., . . . * , - . . .
Italy and the Vatican
Rome Observatore Romano:
spite of the mitigation of the former
harshness in the mutual relations be
tween the Vatican and the Italian
Government, the disagreements have
not yet been eliminated, and they will
only disappear when mean^ have been
found to assure the whole Catholic
world that the Pope has that full and
real independence and liberty which
should be manifest to, and recognized
- — ■ ’ not
one
and
by all. The’ Roman question is
■only a “national” question, byt
which affects all Catholic peoples
nations.
In
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The Sister Provinces
Quebec Solell (Lib.): It is quite
clear that Quebec and Ontario will al
ways be coming together in problems
of an economic character. Though
ruled by different governments, the
two provinces have no real frontiers.
From the point of view of agriculture,
industry, commerce and finance, they
are so closely allied that one cannot
adopt a policy on any essential ques
tion different from the other, without
one of them suffering directly or
directly.
New Archaeologic Find in
Rhodesia
Standerton, S. Af.—Zimbabwe la
one aiAong several hundreds of ruin
ed buildings in Rhodesia, all appar
ently called zimbabwes; i.e., houses
of stone. About 70 miles east of the
main ruin, Zimbabwe Makuru, or
“great stone houses,” a fresh discov
ery of great interest has been made.
It is1 inside a densely populated na
tive reserve, seldom traversed by
white men. It was overgrown with
trees and creepers, as Zimbabwe was
when the first explorers saw it, but
quite uninhabited.
A road has been cut to the ruin,
which is similar to Zimbabwe in
type, but in a m-ore rilapidated state.
Reports of at least a dozen smaller
ruins have been received. The im
portance of the “find” lies in the fact
that the principal building has not
been rifled by prospectors or had its
various layers of soil mixed, up, as
happened at the other Zimbabwe
ruins. A proposal has been .put for
ward to build a small museum at
Zimbabwe in which some at least of
the relics taken from it and now iu
Cape Town, Buluwayo, London, and
Germany, might be collected.
in-
Franco-Russian Trade
Moscow Pravda: The policy
threats and blackmail has not,
never will have
Soviet Government It there are peo
ple in France who count on terroriz
ing the Soviet Itepublics by diplo
matic complications, they deceive
themselves and are only depriving
.Fronch, justness of advantages Which
the preliminary treaty which has al
ready been negotiated would have
giyon them.
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School foi‘ Politics.
Mrs. Jenkinson had been to a po-
Htjldju nifeetfng, and Wheh she return*
' 1 J r^algd her husband
i fcoing' to ^veep the cohtii-
she exc|aiiiied.
Of
and
any effect on the
Speculation in Britain
London Truth (Ind. Lib.): It must
be admitted that there is too much
speculation and that on the whole
prices are too high. . . What would
be interesting to know is the extent
to which the speculation Is conducted
on borrowed credit. That money Is
borrowed, for the purpose scarcely ad
mits of doubt, for it is inconceivable
that the country can afford to go on
buying large lines of shares at tho
prices ruling during the last twelve
months or so. Sino’ the beginning
of 1923 the aggregate advances of the
ten clearing banks have risen by ap
proximately £200,fl00,'0(«>. TMsi in
crease has not been duo to a corres
ponding expansion of tho country’s
trade. ... If it could bo shown that a
considerable proportion of the
crease represents the greater extent
t<? )vhi$li 'tho bank$ have lent iftbdk
exchange feecuritlee, we ciroum4
stanch would be disquieting. • ’’h
Mental Science.e
Mre. Bridel (at 1 a,m3-T'‘QJb J&ofy
cirdutd4
pf?
i ifro fcolhg'
yt yOllH," Shu
“Then," remarked her husband^
“you had baiter start with the kit*
4- chon, dear!"—‘Montreal Dalljr Star.
try/ */c
Mrs. Bride) (at 1 Jack#
wo^9 bp! I cdh just fool there's
ihdfiSQ in tli& foOmF’'
Husband (drowsily}
fedl lire’s a cat( I
siotp<
Ono touch of scandal Ynakesi th<
whole world ehia,
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"Well,
_are s u cat, too, ami £
—Boston Transcript.
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