WAR CRIMINALS
MANY PRISONERS RELEASED. DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) > Deceived February 16, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, February 14. Recently a London magistrate expressed surprise that a prisoner he condeled had been sentenced to death by i court martial for cowardice during .he war time, and I lien released. Enquiries in official circles have disposed that since 1914 89 per cent of .hi 1 war death sentences had been comnuted, and the case of military prisonts had been reviewed at least thrice mice the armistice, largely at the initiaive of Mr Winston Churchill as Sccraary of State for War, resulting in ;cne being now imprisoned for military d'fences, while only 63 are undergoing venal servitude, of whom 57 had been ■eleased within a year. It is estimated hat 50,000 soldiers, including numbers sentenced to death, benelitcd under ths Suspension of Sentences Act,
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14592, 16 February 1921, Page 5
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