COUNCIL OF WAR COMEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

COUNCIL OF WAR COMEDY.

ADJUTANT KICKS SOLDIER.

The Council of war has just sat upon a case typical of the times, because the two prisoners were soldiers Zouaves, both of thenO and one an adjutant. Their story was simple. The soldier was hurrying through the streets of Paris to get back to the barracks, and as the hornwas late he bustled along, anxious to avoid pains and penalties. He was close to the gates of the barracks when he ran up again a young girl, who was escorted by the adjutant. But the Zouave in his anxiety to reach his destination took no notice of his superior, who sharply called him to task for not saluting. " Oh, the adjutant!" exclaimed tie Zouve; to the deuce .with the adjutant '" —or words in French to that effect. But the adjutant heard and promptly kicked the man—kicked him in two places— ordered him at once to the cells. But next morning it was the adjutant's turn to be reprimanded, for he found himself punished for assault with 30 davs' arrest. More than that, the military authorities sent for both men to apperi before the Council of War, where each was furnished with a barrister for his defence. The court took, however, a lenient view of the case. They reprimanded the adjutant for using violence tc his inferior— I*ave those methods to the German brutes, they said— decided that the adjutants offence was wiped out bv the soldier 8 neglect of the duty of deference! and acquitted the pair. *««.«, Both had been on servi ft were invalided home, and the adjutant was wearing the War Medal adJUtant