ENGLISH NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

ENGLISH NEWS.

ARMY SENTENCE SUSPENSION ACT. London, Juno 9.

Professor J. H. Morgan narrated the genesis of the Army Sentence Suspension Act, giving a..sentenced soldier an opportunity of redeeming his character. A sergeant who had lost his nerve was sentenced to five years' nenal servitude for cowardice. Before the sentence onn Id be carried out the Prussian Guard attempted to break through. The sergeant fought with jsuch bravery, that probably but for the sentence he would have received the Victoria Cross. The •sentence was quashed.