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The Seaforth News, 1927-11-03, Page 7Georges Quien, Betrayer, Gets New Trial in France The Betrayer of Edith. Cavell on a 20 Year Sentence Secures A Rehearing Through His Jailor A BROKEN MAN A correspondent of the HP. tells of soldiers With a last defiant mss - of visiting George Quien, the most notorious criminal now in the French Prison at Clairvaux, He goes on to. Clairvaux, France --Cringing, curs- ed as a Judas, an outcast among'out- oasts; the most despised man in all of France is living out here a 20 -year Sentence. ,. He is Georges Caston Quien, 50, convicted bearayer of Nurse Edith Cavell, She died with a smile in 1915 at the ]lands of a German firing squad." 'he look 01 a beaten dog that es into Queen's eyes when the a Arline .Edith Cavell is mentioned, the broken vehemence with. which . he 4, denies his guilt of the most dastardly. x sage of pride in.her country and con- tempt of death, she awaited the shat- tering close range volley of her exe- cutioners. A barked command, the entail 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 Damps, talking to allied soldiers'as a friend Favors shown him by Ger- mans made the allied prisoners of War suspicious.. In 1010, Quien returned to France. of all orimos,has brought hila but Ile was arrested immediately anti son short laughs of scorn from' all but fenced to six months imprisonment' Director Roo or the Clalrvaux pent- for theft. tentiary here where Quien le a con- At the expiration of his term, Quien was forced to go into the French vitt. M. Roc is so einvinced of Quion's army. He was sent to North Africa, innocence, so euro that there has been. There, In October, 1918, Qaieti was ar- rested as the betrayer ` of Nurse Cavell. There was but one possible sen- toliee—death. After 'two weeks •court debate, this sentence was im- posed on Quien. wealthy, but of what avail would be But doubt arose, even despite the his wealth except to enable him to natural prejudice against the con- nide his identity from other men? domned man because of the stigma I am suffering a Calvary," he told that attached to him by the more 40' 'United Press. "Mine is a second cusatlon that he was frailty of such a Dreyfus case." crime. Even if he convinced the powers that sentenced him, could he con- vince the world? Story of Others Here is tho stony as it is told by ethers: For 40 of his 50 years, Quien has been in almost constant trouble. He a miscarrta;o of justice far worse than the execution of a guiltless man, that he is trying to have tauten's' sen- tenco reviewed, hoping at least t0 -*lave it shortened. But where could Quien go? He is The sentence was changed to one of 20 years imp- ninr.ient, N•evv, in the prison hero, Quien ie iiglhing for freedom. ''He has no friends in the mashie world. Even his lawyer has desert- ed him, Prison Director Roc alone of all had served two prison terns before people believes in C,tuton's innocence, this one. and as the mese representative sat Though a I'`reueh uan, a native of with hint, and he pressed a bell to the Atanc district, he was not, with give orders for Quien to bo brought Is He The Betrayer? aSsal I-1IS LAST CHANCE The most despised man ou earth, Georges Quien, alleged betrayer of Edith (:'avec, in a French court denies his guilt. He says a spy who resem- bled him caused the martyr -nurse's death. other Frenchmen, mustered into the oto the office, he eats, he was press - army at the outbreak of the World irg tr a ministers of war and justice a t j War. Ile was servingail I to levicw the ease. term in for theft when the German army en - Into -the little office of M. Roe, the tend St. Quentin in 1914 and made 1 prison director; Quien walked wen - Better in '27 Than in '17 WHAT MEMORIES TO OUR VETERANS! Nouve Chapelle will recall Gurkha, Pathan and Sikh to many a Canadian. A memorial to the Army of India was unveiled there recently, The Maharajah of Kaputhala, 00. Leon Perrier, Marshal Foch and the Earl of Birkenhead inspected the guard of honor. land,: and I carried out numerous mis• The Protection of the Worker Great Britain spends three tinter tions for the French military at- as much for war pensions as does the tache. Quebec Evenement (Ones.): (The United States. "For collaborating in Nurse Ca- veli'S work I was twice condemned by the Germans, enee to six months' imprisonment at Antewerp "Often I handled important mili- tary documents. "I never was in rho pay of the, Ger- mans. "I lost because I bad 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 tbat contained Nurse Ca- vell and others who event:rally were slot. It was he who cost them their lives. "Also Nurse Cavell had a doyen German nurses, anyone of whom. might have Isellayed her, 'Nurse Cavell had ,r!I11 her too, a Gelman girl she hail adopted, a 16-i ye ,.d ponied, Paultnt.'. Site was a loose -tongued though well-meaning cltl.t who -gossiped constantly and could have talked too much. "It is among those whom I have described that you must loop for Nurse Cavell :s denunciator. "I wits the victim of a hostile press campaign at a'time when passions still were white hot, "I ewear I neve]' touched a penny or German money. "I-Iow unhappy I am! "My parents have died, They lett me their fo1•tuue of several hundred thousaud francs, but of what good is it to me? f am 00 and. I haven't much hope for the future. "If I could get a good lawyer and' tell him my story there would be a scandal." There Quien broke clown. Tears welled in his eyes and be sobbed un- reservedly. With his face buried in his ]muds, he was led back to his cell, to servo his long sentence ,as dead to the World as elle heroic nurse, of whose betrayal be was convicted, M, Roc has been successful in gain- ing a rehearing. It Is pl'ogressing, Only the fuium can say 1011at Qufen's future will be, Dolling Up Ma. Ralph Courow of l siadilla has been making improvements on the mother Mrs.. Mary Conrow. Ifo has made improvements on the inside and piaint- Ied the outsiilo.—I3ahlbridge (N.Y.) paper, Quebec Government is improving the conditions of employees' 111nut,i,ci,1- 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 worltdr against accidents of his occupation servos 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 this kind 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 must realize that they are' lookingafter their own particular in - Bilingual Reports Le Devoir (Ind.): M. Belcourt wrote the other clay: "I have always been convinced that the day the Eng- lish-speaking Canadians realized what Regulation XVIL really meant, the cause would be won, - .." It will be the carne, 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 dispute 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 document written in a different lan- guage from their own, do not experi- ence the grievance which the French minority naturally feel. him a double prisoner. I deriugly—ter ordinarily visitors aro. With other clad prisoners, Quien not admitted to this rigorous pent• English Locomotive Goes 76 Miles An Hour on U.S. Road was taken to LandrecIes, There, as a t tentiary, immense, forbidding; Once J Hour trusty, Quien adopted the name of it was a monaster;. It was founded "DoctorC!aduret" and begun the l,1-1 in the 12th century by St. Bernard. legal practice of medicine. Prison Nickname Among his patients, the false doe- It was easy to see how Quien had tor met Jeanne Balligan, who told won his prison nickname of "Do,uble- him 01 a plan by which hundreds of meter" --two yards. He is pearly six wounded soldiers were being Emig- , glad to the 'Dutch frontier and back feetsix inches full, ewould at - to their hemp enunt'1les, tract attention anywhere, Quien responded readily to several According to the original charges questions I asked hint. Then 'I said: against him, Quien succeeded in "f wan OH JUST rule]-]' A LITTLE STUMP SPEECH! �\t�4h(lhi1 LoE.bv&1 r 'sggn The fiction ..that a Scot has little sense of humour was destroyed in a certain, club recently. One 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, lookings down his nose at the of- fender, rapped out, "Man, there aro several humorous versious of that story. Why don't you learn one of them?" Kemal Pasha Ends Long Harangue ,President Makes Impassioned Appeal to Youth of Turkey Angora, Turkey. -Mustapha' Nemo' Pasha, president of 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," ho said, "Mien the enemy occupies the country, when the nation is exhaust- ed, you, youth of Turkey, and 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 recital. of events since September, 1824,' 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 tithe abolition of polygamy. , East and West Kobe Herald: The British in the: East do not give tongue to their sus- picious of the Japanese so freely as do the American and Dutch, but they, as as race, are not outspoken, and, moreover, until recently they were in alliance with the. Japanese and con- siderations of decency doubtless exer- cise a restraining influence ]lad' they been without misgivings and fears, however, the scheme for the establishment of the Naval base at Singapore Would never have con- ceived. "You know, k darling, of course I'm a g, -lying 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." Progress Affects "The Bank" GETTING READY FOR LARGER THINGS The "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street;' the Bank of England, closed ber door a few days ago, but only to open a new one. The rebuilding of the hank is progressing 'wile 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 returntr,g whence it came, "I look forward every Sunday to the atter-dinner nap." "I thought you never slept after dinner." "I don't, but my wife does." "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. working his way into the secret cont-' Cavell," mlttee of 10 that was directing the Q:ieu's huge frame seemed sadden smuggling. ly to collapse into a mass of un - Posing as- a doctor, a lawyer, an healthy flesh His face blanched, army officer, and even as a mIlitary I Cowering, he covered his face with. attache, Quien made himself trusted this huge hands. Then his story came by the allied patriots who- were risk- with a rush of broken sentences: ing death a dozen limes a day at tis e1 stn not guilty{ I am not guilty! hands of such a traitor as he. "If you knew the' real story of my Thus Quien met Nurse Edith Cavlary you would pity me. Cavell, at whose hospital, in Brussels, I "'I have sinned often, I regret. But l' he .took refuge July 8, 1915. never—never—did I denounce Nurse One week later Miss Cavell, Pain- Cavell." cess (le Croy and others operating the "under -ground railroad" were ar- rested and tried. Pour, including the devoted woman whose nein° has become a symbol of the spiritually glorious side of war, tyere sentenced to death by a Ger- man courtnlartial. Nurse Cavell made no complaint. She knew the rules of war, and that they wero not always softened in mercy to -women. Bravery of Nurse One morning she walked with serene face and firm step out from her prison cell to race a firing squad t to ask you about Nurse Alone with his awful thoughts for neatly eight years, Quien appears to haze constructed .a hole -proof de- fence. "I am the victim of judicial er- rors," he continued. "It is my past history that has convicted me. "My lawyer tried hard to save me; but he has lost interest. Now I never hear from him and he does no- thing to re -open my 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 drama. I escap- ed from ate occupied territory to Hol SPEED MARK SET EV ENGLISH TRAIN Baltimore,—Tile fastest and most powerful lovomotive in Europe, the "King George V" of England's Great Western Railway, completed a 290-mille test run over Baltimore 3: Ohio trades recently and startled officials of that road by hitting a •76 -mile -an -hour speed witb its throttle only 76 per cont. open. "Cut that out — 1 Pipe down there" -A voice somewhere in the dynamometer car, which contained the instruments and dials, said as the speedometer quivered upward.' Some one picked up a telephone receiver and • the head dropped back to 60. Laborers, office workers and motorists along the route from Baltimore craned their necks anis struck amus - ins poses' as the lithe whippet of the mite, resplendent in dark green paint and shining brass, swept by with 7 coaches, Italy and the Vatican Rome Observatore Romano: In spits 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, anti they will only disappear when means 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 by all. The Roman question Is not only a "national" question, but one which affects all Catholic peoples and nations, The Sister Provinces Quebec Soleil (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 in- directly. I# rancoaussiai Trade Moscow Pravda: The policy of threats and blackmail has not, and never will have any effect on the Soviet Government. If there are peo- ple in France vvlo count on 'terroriz- Ing the Soviet Republics by diplo- matic complications, they deceive themselves ,and aro only depriving French business of advantages which the preliminary treaty which has al- ready been negotiated would have given them. School for Politics. ' Mre. Jenkinson had been to a po- liticai meeting, and when she return- ed home she regaled b er husband with her party views. "We are going to sweep the coun- try, Sohn," she =tainted, "Then," remarked her husband, "you had better start with the kit- chen, dear!"—Montreal Daily Star. Lond.>n Loses Famous Old City Building Last Vestige of Blue Coat School 300 Years Old is Being Demolished • London—The last vestiges of the buildings which for over 300 years housed the famous Blue Coat School, In London are vary shortly to disap- pear, and so will vanisll from the metropolis all traces of an institution which was, In many rosopoote unique in characted, The school itself, Christ's. Hospital, to give it ire proper name, moved into the country 25 Years, ago, and many of its buildings Ware then pulled down to make room for extensions to the General Post Of. flee, but part of the original quadra- ngle and cloisters remained, On this the 'house -breakers• have now been set to work; a11d before many days' are past there will not, be left'on0 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 bo merciful unto the poor," gave to the city of London the old monastery of the Grey Friars to provide orphans and poor men's chic dren "with meat, drink, clothes, lodg- ing," At first the governors of the foundation took in babies only a few months old, but the accommodation available was not unlimited, and very soon the age of adlniseion had to be raised to four ,years, to bo changed again to seven years before the end of the seventeenth century, By that time a grammar eehool had been added to the foundation, and S 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 eomanders 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 seltool," 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." I,•s'om early lays, the 'toys of the fcunda.tien war- a distinctive livery, and this remains little changed to Gila day. Originally it consisted of a blue gown, knee breeches, yellow petticoat and stockings, while neckaa, bands, and a blue cap. The petticoat' and cap were given up some 70 or 80 years since, but otherwise the "Blue Coat" boys urs still garbed as they were 310 years ago. New Archaeologic Find in Rhodesia Standerton, S. At—Zimbabwe is one among several hundreds of ruin. eel buildings in Rhodesia, all appar eptly called zimbabvtes; i.e., houses of stone. About 70 miles east of the* main ruin, Zimbabwe Makeru, or "great stone houses," a fresh discov- ery iscovery of great interest has been made. It is inside a densely populated nes tive reserve, seldom traversed by white men, 01 was overgrown with trees and creepers, as Zimbabwe was when the first explorers saw 11, but quite uninhabited. A road has been cut to the rainy which is similar to Zimbabwe In type, but in a more rilapidatod stato. 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 Zhnbabwc in whieh sotno at least of the relics taken from it and now in Cape Town, 1luluwayo, London, and Germany, might be collected. Speculation in Britain London Truth (Ind, I.ib.): It must be admitted that there is too muck spoeulaten and that on the whole Prices are too high. , , What would be intere.ttng 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 Inconeeivablo that Um country can afford to go on buying large ?lees of shares at the prices ruling during the last twelve mouths or so. Sine' the begimhing of 1923 tlia aggregate advances of the ton clearing banks hare risen by op - proximately £200;000,000. :M1•ls in- crease has not been due to a 0055u - ponding expansion et the .country's trade. - . , If it could be shown that *0 oonsiderabie proportion of the In- crease represents the greater extent to which the banks have lent took exchange securities, the elreum• stance would bo disquieting. Mental *Science. Mrs, Bride] (at 1 tare.) --"Ola Jack, wake up! I can just feel there's s mouse in the room," IIusband (drowsily) — "Well; jest feel there's a cat, too, and go to sleep." --Boston Transcript. Ono touch of s..afPal snakes the whole world chin.