BRITISH ARMY ACT
AUSTRALIAN OBJECTIONS. SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS. MELBOURNE, April 25. An amending Defence Bill .before the Senate arosued a storm of protest, as there is a drag-net clause which incorporates the British ArmyAct into the Australian Act, and senators were asked to agree to this without being supplied with copies of the British ‘ Act. Mr. Pratten strongly criticised the Bill, stating that under the British Act there were possibilities of savage sentences and harsh discipline contrary to Australian ideas of freedom. , Senator Elliot, a former brigadiergeneral in the Expeditionary Force, caused a sensation in the chamber by recounting his own experiences through falling foul of a duke’s son prior to the great offensive in France, as a result of which he was denied all further promotion. He attributed the treatment to Sir William Birdwood, and accused’s general, Sir Brudenell White, of being an accessory and threatening to send him back to Australia if he raised a row. The Bill is unlikely to reach the House of Representatives this session.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18162, 26 April 1921, Page 5
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