Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Alfonso deemed the recent mutinous outbursts among Spanish artillerymen sufficiently quieted last week to revoke the decree of martial law issued a fortnight...
...Martial law was proclaimed by royal decree and all artillery officers were suspended ad interim from their commands, deprived of their pay, and forbidden to wear their uniforms. Exceptions to this order were made only in the case of artillery officers on active service in Morocco...
After a two-day court martial before five German judges, she was sentenced to be shot. By order of General von Sauberzweig, military governor of Brussels, the sentence was conveyed to her in secret the next day and she was executed the following morning...
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...
...unique importance of Miss Cavell's death for propaganda purposes arose from the fact that she was the first woman executed by order of a German court martial in Belgium for "recruiting" as opposed to "espionage." Within a few months Allied billboards were o'er-plastered with posters showing a brute-faced German officer commanding a phalanx of soldiers to fire upon a youthful, blooming defiant girl in the costume of a Red Cross nurse. The caption: EDITH CAVELL NEXT...