NO DEATH PENALTY.
THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES. GENERAL MONASH'S DENIAL. "It is just one of those periodical libels on the Australian forces that British people are so fond of launching," This was the comment made the other day fay Lieut.-General Sir John Monash, who commanded the Australian Army Corps in France, when his attention was directed to references made in the House of Commons regarding certain orders alleged to have been issued by general officers m the Australian forces in war time as to penalties that would be inflicted on machine-gunners who might be guilty o! quitting their posts, "There was no such thmg as an order of the kir.d inferred," said fiir John Monash. "No deaita penalty was ever enforced in the Australian forces. We had frequently, in accordance with the King's regulations, to impose a death penalty, but the penalty was invariably ownmated. It has been inferred that death penalties were ordered wit boat any court martial. Such a thing is unthinkable, and there is absolutely no truth whatever in the allegations."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 9
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173NO DEATH PENALTY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 9
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