AMERICAN ARMY INQUIRY.
— —■«♦ SAVAGE PUNISHMENTS. GENERAL'S ALLEGATIONS. A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. General Ansell, Acting-Judge-Advocate-General of the United States Army, giving evidence before the Senate Committee, said that punishments in the American Army were savagely harsh. Mr. N. D. Baker, Secretary for War, refused to allow him to make recommendations for clemency. In several camps in the United States conditions were shocking.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17251, 29 August 1919, Page 7
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63AMERICAN ARMY INQUIRY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17251, 29 August 1919, Page 7
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