NEW GUINEA "LOOTING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 144, 19 June 1915, Page 10

NEW GUINEA "LOOTING.

Commenting on the charges of looting in German New Guinea, the Australasian writes : "The honour of the Australian army is involved. Looting is, in all self-respecting armies, now considered a crime, and officers and men guilty of it should be severely puuUhed. In some services Mr. Anstcy's tolerant view of looting may be shared, but the faintest beginnings of so noxious a growth must be ruthlessly stamped out here. The traditions of the Commonwealth military forces are in the making. The glorious commencement being made , in Europe must not be tarnished by any tolerance of mean little offences at home. The enquiry which is to be instituted ought, therefore, to be thorough ; , no more departmental investigation and report will suffice. The credit of the Government is, in no small measure, implicated in this irregularity, if irregularity them was, for ho gross a scandal would mdi cate a lamentable carelobsuess or ignorance i»i the choice of instruments, to perform !>o cbns-idfrable an enterprise ao the capture ol the German colonies in the Pacific."