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These malefactors were small potatoes in the international game of espionage. Had they been large potatoes their capture would likely have been kept secret. Certainly Nina, though similarly beauteous and professionally equipped, was no Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning). That curvesome celebrity of World War I did business in...
Back in 1914 when U. S. War-Correspondent Richard Harding Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper...
A group of pince-nezed London barristers scanned last week the will of Baron Walter von Bissing, arched their eyebrows in surprise. The Baron, as everyone knows, was half-brother to General von Bissing, notorious German Military Governor-General of Belgium during a part of the World War. Though Baron...
What moved Baron von Bissing to this abhorrence of his fatherland? His friends declare that a partial cause was the judicial murder of a woman whose death was laid at the door of General von Bissing by Allied propaganda- Miss Edith Cayell. To erase that stigma from his family name...
Because General von Bissing, as Military Governor-General of Belgium, was technically responsible for the German court martial system of trying civilians, he was marked by Allied propagandists as "the murderer of Edith Cavell."