AN ARMY CRITIC.
9> LIEUTENANT SUTOR'S CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright (Received October 26, 10.30 p.m.) London, October 26. Lieutenant A. Sutoe, of the Royal Artillery, who was recently courtmartialled for publishing, a pamphlet criticising what he alleged to be irregularities in the army, is under close arrest at Tynemouth, because when questioned regarding a newspaper interview he intimated that he did not desire to enter into expla r nations with Mr. Haldane (Secretary for War) or the Army Council. Lieutenant Sutor published a pamphlet entitled, "The Army System; or, Why Muddle Through Thirty Millions a Year During Peace?" The pamphlet amounts in effect to a charge that the army is pervaded by a fussy futility which results in a vast waste of energy, and makes for the reverse of efficiency. "In the army," ho ' writes, "the aim is uniformity. It may be uniformity of mediocrity; it may even be uniformity of imbecility— must bo uniformity." Later he states, "the army system does nothing to discover good generals— does everything to preserve bad ones. It means the survival of the unfit."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14511, 27 October 1910, Page 5
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