DEFENCE COMMISSION.
(tress association tklkgeam.) WICLI/IXnTOX, May 1. Major Mc( l isteli. giTiiig evidence before tnc .Deieuti' I'.xueiidittire Commission to-day, str.tcd that there wv.*e shortages oi nttt/s 111 some, districts, due *to cimuessness and indiherencc? on tho ])art ot thr.se responsible* for tneir care, custody, and to the practice in the piist of issuing a rifle to the individual .Jmitorial and allowing him to'take it home. lx>sses and defa-e.e.iL-ies wen- still c.ccurn.iy, but were li/mg ir.imediateiy enquired into, and t he person or the" unit responsible was being dealt with. The- people responsible lor administration should be allowed to select their own officers; then the officers would be resyons-bi© to the men who selected them. Eviyy told.er who made away with, or lost by ncyleev. or wiilV.liy damaged, any arti.-lo issued j to him should be punished.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16204, 6 May 1918, Page 4
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