WAR-TIME OFFENCES.
MILITARY PRISONERS RELEASED. By T«l«|Tiph -Pre*« Asscoation --Copyright Reuter* a Telegrams. (Received February 16, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON. February 1 h Recently n. London Magistrate expressed surprise that a prisoner he convicted had been sentenced to death by a court-martial for cowardice during war time and then released. Inquiries in official circles disclosed that since 1914 89 per cent of war death sentences hod been commuted, and that the case of military prisoners had been reviewed at least thrice since the armistice largely at the initiative of Mr Winston Churchill, resulting in none being now imprisoned tor military aixty-throo are undergoing penal servitude. of whom fifty-seven will be re leased within the year, ff is estimated that 00,000 soldiers, including numbers sentenced to death, benefited under the suspension of the Sentence* Act.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16353, 16 February 1921, Page 7
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