ATROCITY TRIALS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 3

ATROCITY TRIALS

DEATH PENALTY TOP SINKING HOSPITAL SHIPS. Hear-Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, a member of tho conuniltee which is considering tho punishment of Germans who have committed atrocities on land and sea, made some interesting disclosures in nn election speech. The committee, ho said, had already drafted its method of procedure. It re««{ni«ed that there were two classes of offenders—the perpetrator of the deed and fli<\ lusher authority who ordered it. They had to treat both with justice nl'rt 'no mercy. In the case of the hnspihl ship Llandovery Castle, for instance, tho man who sunk her would be brought t<> trial. He would bo defended !>v counsel in "pen Court, and, if convicted, he wnirld die. A man who was found guilty of nn nli'ooitv against Bumanity—not against international law, but against the lows of civiP-sntibn—would have to prove that fie obeved superior orders or suffer. If he proved that he obeyed orders, then thev would proceed against the hurlmr «nthoritios-it did not matter how high. Great Britain's arm was long enough to reach them.