DEFAULTERS' SENTENCES
AN EXPLANATION.
(HI TELEGRAPH. —PP.ESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHURCH, 9th March
Regarding the sentences passed on the three reservists who were tried by courtmartial for failing to attend medical examination. Colonel Chaffey, O.C. the Canterbury District, who confirmed the sentences, explained that the Court imposed a heavy sentence (two years' imprisonment) on Murance because he, as a Second Division reservist, tried to evade the authorities for fifteen months, and showed an obstinate dispo6ition, refusing to be examined, and being against everything associated with service.
Roberts did not refuse to come up when called on, and it was not necessary to arrest him, and he had a lighter sentence (eighteen months').
Henderson, the well-known newspaper artist, came forward on his own initiative, and did not expound his antimilitarist views in public, although' he had held them for fifteen years past, and he received only nine months' hard labour.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 60, 11 March 1918, Page 8
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