SOLDIER’S SENTENCE STANDS
Case In Australia
(Received September 22, 7.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, September 22. The sentence of five years.’ imprisonment imposed on an Australian soldier, Private J. Wilson, for mutiny, will not be changed, said the Minister for the Army, Mr. Forde, in the House of Representatives. As originally decided, the sentence will be reviewed in October or next year with a view to remitting the balance if Wilson’s conduct in prison is satisfactory. Mr. Forde said that Wilson’s army record was bad, but no reflection would be cast on his service in action. He had been charged 11 times for military offences. Though many more were implicated in the incident, when men refused duty at a Queensland detention camp because of verminous conditions and alleged bad food, only Wilson aud two others were singled out and charged as ringleaders. . , The quality of deliberation stamped their offence, which was grave since incidents had occurred in the detention barracks where soldiers were undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline and where there was a danger of a serious not or insurrection.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 307, 23 September 1944, Page 6
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