FAILURE TO PARADE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 4

FAILURE TO PARADE

—. — o RESERVISTS SENTENCED. By Telegraph-Press Association. Chrlstchurch, March 9. Sentences were announced to-day on tlie threo reservists who were tried by court-martial for failing to attend mediI cal examination. Edward Mortimer Murance was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, John Roberts to eighteen months, and Andrew Kennaway Henderson to nine months. In each case hard labour was imposed. Colonel Chaffey, O.C. the Canterbury District, who confirmed the sentences, explained that the' Court, imposed a heavy sentence on Murance because he, as a Second Division reservist, tried to evado the authorities for fifteen months,, and showed an obstinate disposition, refusing to be examined, and being against everything associated with service. Koberts did not refuse to come up when called on, and it was not necessary to arrest him, and he had a lighter sentence. Henderson, the well-known newspaper artist, came forward on his own initiative, and did not expound his anti-militarist views in public, although, he had held them for fifteen years, past, and he received only nine months hard labour.