Nurse Edith Cavell, as every British heroine worshipper should know, was a smuggler of men. She was shot for heroically smuggling Allied soldiers out of territory occupied by the Imperial German Armies. Exactly similar was the work of two French heroines, Louise de Bettignies and Marie Léonie van Houtte. Louise died in a German prison. Last week with all possible Paris pomp Marie was married.
Marie van Houtte owes her life to a smart Spanish consul in Brussels who argued the Germans into sentencing her to life imprisonment instead of setting her before...
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