DEATH PENALTY.
Erased From Active Service Regulations. EIGHT ABOLITIONS. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, March 30. Sir L. Worthington-Evans, Minister of War, has introduced the Army and Air Force Bill, which abolishes the death penalty on active service except for mutiny, treachery, cowardice, desertion, leaving a guard without authority or a sentinel leaving without a relief. The eight abolitions include sentinels drunk or sleeping on duty, striking a superior, striking a sentinel, plundering, leaving commanding officer to go in search of plunder.
A British official wireless message states that in Parliamentary circles the extent of the death penalty proposals has causcd some surprise. It is understood that they have been framed in sympathy with the general tenor of the views expressed in recent debates on Army matters, in which demands were made for some modification of the imposition of the death penalty. —(A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 9
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