DEATH SENTENCES IN WAR.
ONLY 343 CARRIED OUT. (Received 10.30 n.ia.) LONPON, April 29. In tin- House, of Lords to-day, Lord Peel, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, stated that the death sentences passed during the whole wartime numbered in all theatres :io7(> officers and men, but only 434 were curried out. All the. latter were confirmed before execution by the Oomniander-in-( 'hief. — (Imperial News. P.A.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 103, 30 April 1920, Page 5
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