FIELD EXECUTIONS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16853, 5 June 1920, Page 9

FIELD EXECUTIONS.

ATTACK ON LORD HAIG.

LONDON, May 27. "Hie "Daily Herald" (London Labour daily) features the attack by "Staff Batman" in the Sydney "Bulletin" on Field-3larshal Earl Haig in connexion with the death sentence.

["Staff Batman," in the article referred to, said, inter alia: —"lt painsd Ha is nob to be able to shoot Australians 011 active service. He gave one the impression that he thought we wero the kind of birds ivho ought to be siiot frequently, but we were never qaiite sure wh-.ther he hated us on general principles, or merely despised us for our alleged lack of discipline. Of all British officers of iiigh rank, he was about the only one who rnme near us. When we first went to franco we used to have particulars of British Army executions read to us on parade by Haig's general orders. It d:d not interest us in the least to know that they were shooting British and Canadian soldiers pretty well every morning, since capital punishment in th» field did not apply to Australians. That sort of thing didn't put the wind" up on Australians; it merely filled them with disgust and loathing. When I Haig noticed th:s effect he knocked I off having these harrowing details of | executions read to us."]