DEATH PENALTY.
TO BE RETAINED IN ARMY AND NAVY. (BT CABII—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOC! VTION > LONDON, Apiil 21. In the House of Commons, in Committee on the Army and Air Force Bill, Mr E. Thurtle (Labour, Shoreditch) ; moved an official Labour amendment abolishing the death penalty for cowardice and deserting. He said that such a penalty could not be defended as a military necessity, ' because Australian troops were not subject to it. Captain H. D. King (Conservative, Paddington), replying, ( said that the death penalty was not always imposed. Personally, he believed that every man in the Great War knew fear, the only difference was the extent to which fear ' was controlled. The existence of the ' death penalty was .a deterrent. All the Grea* War Powers retained it, and the War Office thought this power , necessary. The amendment was lost by 269 votes to 123. !
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18673, 23 April 1926, Page 9
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