FURTHER PROTEST
APPEALS BY DEFAULTERS
P.A. DANNEVIRKE, This Day. The executive of the Dannevirke and District Patriotic Society has resolved to protest against the proposals to grant rehearihgs to military defaulters. These provisions, carried to their logical and legal conclusion, states the executive, would mean that every lawbreaker in the Dominion convicted since the beginning of the war should now be given a rehearing. Likewise, every serviceman who might have recorded against him a breach of military law. If would be a travesty of British justice if a man who refused to fight for his country could, by an ex parte statement in camera, secure the same freedom and rights as a returned serviceman. If an appeal were successful then presumably the detention of the appellant was wrongful. "Does the Government propose to pay compensation for such alleged wrongful detention?" asks the executive.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1945, Page 4
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143FURTHER PROTEST Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1945, Page 4
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