ENGLISH NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 5

ENGLISH NEWS.

DEATH PENALTY. FOR MILITARY

OFFENCES

FEW EXECUTIONS

LIQUOR RESTRICTIONS IN THE

UNITED KINGDOM

London, Jan. 26

In the House of Commons, Mr. H. J. Tennant, Under-Secretary for War, replying to a question, said no British soldiers had been shot in the United Kingdom for military offences. It was not in the public interest to state the number shot in the forces overseas, but the number was inconsiderable.

Dr. Addison, Under-Secretary for the Munitions Department,' anridunced that the convictions for drunkenness in the principal restricted areas in England had fallen one-half. Scotland's figures were less satisfactory, although they showed a substantial, reduction.

At a meeting in the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor presiding, Miss Lena Ashwell appealed to Australasia for asisistance to continue her concerts in the hospitals at the front, especially the concert party going to Malta and

Egypt,