News reports shortly following Cavell's execution were found to be only true in part. Even the "American Journal of Nursing" repeated the fictional account of Cavell's execution in which she fainted and fell because of her refusal to wear a blindfold in front of the firing squad. Allegedly, while she lay unconscious, the German commanding officer shot her dead with a revolver. Along with the invasion of Belgium, and the sinking of the "Lusitania", Cavell's execution was widely publicised in both Britain and North America by Wellington House, the British War Propaganda Bureau.