BETTER BEHAVED ARMY.
Tho conduct of tho British soldier has improved remarkably during the last 'five years, according'to the Report on Military Prisons and Detention'. Barracks for 1907, issued recently. Tho avorago daily population ■of military • prisons ana detention barracks at Hohio and abroad during the last; fivo years is shown in . the following list:— Per 10.00 , Year. Total. of Army. . 1903 1617 ............ 7,5 1904 . .1542 8.4 1905 ;;; 1162 6.1 1906 • 80S. 4.7 1907 805 ;..... 4.5 Tho number of soldiers committed to military prisons in 1903 was 21,561, as against 286 committed to military prisons and 12,891 to detention barracks in 1907. Tho report adds that' tho . new system of "detention" instead of "prisoii" for purely military offences is much appreciated by soldiers ana works' well. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 10
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