ARMY PUNISHMENTS.
REPORT OE THE COMMITTEE
LONDON, Marc’n 27. The inter-departmental committee of the Army and Air Force, reporting on the possibility of disciplinary amendments, states that it cannot recommend the abolition of the death penalty for the most serious inilitary offences on active service. Similarly, it does not advise a serious reduction in the number of offences for which the death penalty may be inflicted. In discussing the suggested substitutions of imprisonment, the report says that servico witnesses of all ranks are agreed that this would not prove a sufficient deterrent. “Looking at the conditions of modern warfare, or the fact that the offender finds them almost beyond endurance, it is hard to see that a measure which would remove him to safety, with the certainty of an amnesty ufter the war, could be anything but attractive to him.” The committee reports against allowing soldiers to contract out of the duty of aiding the civil power in the event of strikes.” —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 101, 30 March 1925, Page 11
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