OTHER SUTORS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

OTHER SUTORS.

nnors BRITISH ARMV CpVRT* MARTIAL THAT HAVE CAISED BIG TROUBLE.

The public intercs* that v.-.s aroused bv th.’ recent c< nrt-marti il on Lieutenant Sutor. considerable though it w-ns. was as nothing by cornpari-o.i with the fever of excitement into which ths country was thrown some tim.’ bnc.< bv a court-martial on two i onn-g officers of the 4fith R“giment, n nmd . erry anil Greer. .. Those voting men were iinmen-ifu.ir ‘ E riK£l—P'l * th- other ofiiivrs. and. towns’ th.’V dared to a temnt to defend themselves with their fi-ts in th- . n ,l ol<! F.rdish fa-hlon. Hwy wore encrt-martmllei. and th t Army careers ruined. Or at b n*’, they would hav- lie. n ruined, but for th- nitb’ic oillcrv that cr.siv d Tl-.e Press took u» their cn.-e nn-i n<>t a newspaper in i';< e’iintry •mt -r’a was upon their Mile. Even the ‘ Times’’ broke with all it; traditions an<l bitterly denounced the mdlt.arv anlhorities. warning them in a nv -t remarkable and outspoken leading otticle that th - temper of the r enp!c was such that murder would probably ■,? done unless Messrs. Perry and Greer iu>s. roii-stited. . Meanwhile no offi-er < I t.ie Pith dcroil show himself i i uniiorm in th’ die ts of Mindsor. whore the regiment was statione l. and even offic i - of ot h-r corrs. who had nothing directly to do with the affair, be aine the obj’cts ot rubes and leers of the populace, r.senFualiv. however, the sentemes were re ver-ed. and quiet thereby restored. Another sensational c-urt-niartial wa tint in which a ccrtiin Captain Robinson was *he principal fi 'lire. This a'-o was a ‘ragging’’ case, but unlike Messrs. Perrv and Greer. Mr. Robinson n r.de :o attenmt to defend hiniscll wbil • he was being “ragged’’ ; sn. as it was determined to boqnd him from the Servire. hr- was trier! on a charge of “submitting to ungentb-m.-inly conduct bv his brother officers.’’

FOUND GUILTY AFTER THIRTY DAYS.

To the ordinary civilian mi-id it ‘cans ns if the officers who had l-c ■- guilty n ( the nngentlomanlv condnc’ were the Maniewcrthy parties rather th-n the < n • *w’>o under co-cp d-i-n vil-mitted to it lut this was not th- 1’ -ht that the Armv niithoritf’s ’-pgard.'-d the matter in. After trial la-ting thirtv days they found the prisoner guilty, and the usun.l sentence of dismissal was pronounced - but again the public nrosin it., wrath, and one-.- more th.’ sentence was annulled. A unite different type of courtmartial. hut one that arous'd fullv -is much general interest, w.-s that which sat at Ch-dham for the trial of Colonel Templar. Chief Inspector of the Army Sehool of Military Ballooning, on a charge of having sold secret uiform.a.'ion to a foreign government. ’Hie cvi--4erc.» wa’ of the most sensational doMriptmn. bit it minted con chi st velv to others sis being th? FC’l guilt .’ parties, r.nd Colonel Tcmn’ar. after bavin ' been h. noornbly acquitted. was publicly h- nd-d b-e*t bn swoid amid -copes of frantic enthusiasm. Black memories cluster round tho csiurr-martial that was n-ser-bkil :>t Kingstown. Jamaica, by Governor M'.all. for the trial of S’C'-eant Armstrong. The prisoner wns charged with mutiny. Hut his real offence seems to have l>ccn that he had incurred tho enmity of Mall a harsh martinet.

The sentence was eight hundred J-i-h-s, and the flogeinft was inflicted with strnh merciless seventy. Wall himself ‘landing bv and urging the (loggers to do their utmost, that the itnhnnpv man died =o>n afterwards. Wall He'd, and '-id himself for twenty years, but Im v. a? wrought to trial in the end, and bring found guilty of murder was hanged in London in the presence of some fortv thousand people who shrieked imprecations upon him. Another hist ric court-martial, and one wliuh ::a 1 a i almo-t equally tragic • riding, was that which sat to try Colonel Brereton for icfusing to fire on the |>er>ple during th" dr< adful riots which marked the entrance into Bristol •>f Sir Charles Wetheroil, the Recorder, v. ho was eno r f the bit'ere.-t opponents ef Ibe gr-'at Reform Bill.

Fo"- this l.e wrs put upon his trial. b>it hr commit’ol suicide while the c.-nrt-mnrtial was in session, exclaiming with almost his last brea’h. At all vents I have not the blood of my f.’lh.v.-countrymen u|K>n my head.”

TESTING RATS I OR PLAGUE.

The method "snally adopted far testing si a-i r.it . tor rlit? plague bacillus is tn t iki* a dr<»p of the dead animal’s niood and examine it under n powerful microsc. pe. Then, if a microbe which looks I ke the one that gives rise to pb’.giio is di'cnvcred.w it is removed. t’:.n;<“l. so to speak, in a tiny '‘grrd. > by itself. ; . n d there encouraged to

Tin* ' girsb-n ' is alscnt.* th - -b? of half a po-t.igc stamp, and the •'soil’’ t< a -nr j-.llv. a sitb-stance which c.xi>erirnc? h s shown to b? paculiaily suitable to most kinds of mictvdies. Here, i. all g. -s well, the single bacillus iu- ■ i a-s ;.nd rnult’phos at an a).;>•>-' in- ' ■ neeivably r. pid ra’e. giving rise to » hn» is known as a “<wlony.”

To? colony may contain possibly « e.-aj.'c ~f million niiero!,.'.s. but it is r y rn , then so mtnnte as to be barclv v » ’•. - t-> the naked eye. in the form of a t ;rv -reck • hon ing dark grey on the nm’r r-r-ionr. ■! .-in f.i<n (: f tiro je’ty. It i- snlfico-nt for the purpose of the ex-r-ro-'-rt.>r. h-'W. ver. who pri co.ds to c"' ■ '••nltiiros’’ from it. T 1 • •«•' rurlttiros ate prepared bv tranl- - tn,, or t h-e' thousand of the r.K-.; on the point of a needle from th" i-!!v to a •tcii’is,-'! meat broth. The mixture. is then i'licc’ed into the Indies ni h- I't’iv rat;, and if thes" die of the p’r :i!«-. it is ror- dore I proof positive th it so ;;’s ( did (he fi,- >s t rr ,t_ ' Tlcr.rv "-.nietimes I’m serrr vou are m i i sailor." ' Rut -sailor- arc away from h me sj rni-h of the time.” Y.s! ’