GERMAN ARMY BILL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144134, 2 July 1913, Page 3

GERMAN ARMY BILL.

PUT THROUGH THE REICHSTAG. e AFTER SOME BARGAINING. By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright. (Received July 2, 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN, July 1. Before the Reichstag met tho various parties agreed to the insertion in tho military code of a paragraph empowering the Court in less serious cases of mutiny and riot to impose a sentence as low as half-a-yoar or a year. Tho Socialists accepted it conditionally on tho Erfurt offenders being benfited fry it. The Army Bills have now been passed. Tiro Centre vote for the taxation of Federal Princes was given owing to' a mistake, but tho Government secured tho rescission of tho clause orr tho third reading. The Government obtains tho army increase asked for, including fix cavalry regiments.