The Case of Miss Cavell, By Ambroise Got. (Hodder and
Stoughton. 12s. (3d. not.)—M. Got has published in this book the documents relating to the court-martial on Miss Cavell, with a pungent commentary. The papers, he says, were given to him by "a German political personage," whom we are Inclined to identify as Baron van der Lancken„ inasmuch as a private letter from him to Herr Zimmermann, commenting sharply on the tactless brutality of General von Sauberzweig, Military Governor of Brussels, is printed at the end. It would be in keeping with what we know of Baron van der Lancken, the German political agent in Brussels, if le sought to ingratiate himself with the British publie by denouncing his military accomplice. M. Got shows that, from a legal standpoint, the trial and sentence were arbitrary and unjustifiable. The German authorities took care to conceal the sentence—passed on October 9th, 1915, confirmed on October 10th but not communi- cated to the prisoners till late on October 11th—until it was too late for the American Minister to appeal directly to Berlin. General von Sauberzweig's object was to take vengeance on a brave Englishwoman. But his foul deed recoiled on his country and disgraced the German name.
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