“This will settle the matter, once for all, about recruiting in Great Britain,” said the Bishop of London. “There will be no need now of compulsion.” All day men competed in their eagerness to join the Army. Continual recruiting meetings were held round the base of Nelson’s monument. In Nurse Cavell’s native village every eligible man joined the Forces next day. A tide of enthusiasm set in which has not yet waned. [Illustration: [_Daily Mirror Photograph._ NURSE CAVELL IN HER GARDEN.] [Illustration: _Photo Copyright_] [_Farringdon Photo Company._ NURSE CAVELL, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN BRUSSELS.] Consternation and horror expressed themselves in every part of the world. The _Staats Zeitung_, the Germans’ newspaper in New York which defended the sinking of the “Lusitania,” disowned the crime. “This is savagery,” said neutral Holland. “The killing of Miss Cavell will be more expensive than the loss of many regiments,” said a great American journal. “The peace of the future would be incomplete and precarious,” wrote the Paris _Figaro_, “if crimes like these escaped the justice of peoples.” The King and Parliament gave voice to England’s sentiment. Yet the Germans were so little conscious of what they had done that they made the deed blacker by excuses. “We hope it will serve as a warning to the Belgians,” wrote the Berlin official paper, the _Vossische Zeitung_. “I know of no law in the world which makes distinction between the sexes,” said Herr Zimmermann, the Kaiser’s Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. And they filled the cup of their infamy by refusing to surrender Nurse Cavell’s body to her friends. It is fitting that there should be some personal memorial to this heroic life. One such, by the thoughtful initiative of Queen Alexandra, is to be provided in the shape of an Edith Cavell Nursing Home at the London Hospital where Miss Cavell was trained. The _Nursing Mirror_, for which she wrote her last article, urges the institution of a Cavell Cross for Heroism, a decoration for women only. An Empire Day of Homage has been proposed. A great national memorial service has been held in St. Paul’s Cathedral. But the best memorial to Edith Cavell will be the determination of her fellow-citizens to put aside self in willing service to their country. APPENDIX. SIR EDWARD GREY’S SCATHING COMMENT. Sir EDWARD GREY to the AMERICAN AMBASSADOR in London. Foreign Office, October 20th, 1915. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the United States Ambassador, and has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of His Excellency’s note of the 18th instant enclosing a copy of a despatch from the United States Minister at Brussels respecting the execution of Miss Edith Cavell at that place. Sir E. Grey is confident that the news of the execution of this noble Englishwoman will be received with horror and disgust not only in the Allied States, but throughout the civilised world.