GERMAN ARMY PUNISHMENTS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 13 July 1917, Page 1

GERMAN ARMY PUNISHMENTS

A Bill hits been presented to the providing, far ;i reduction of the iiinuinum punishments under German military huv for certain offences. It sheets nn iiiteiestiuu tight on German moral. The offences which it is now found necessary to. treat more lightly include absence without leave. desertion, grave disobedience, insubordination, striking:l superior, provoking- mutiny, and grave neglect of duty by sentries. ■ the summary in the Berlin Lokauinzeiger.' an explanatory statement that chauged eireinusfcanccsj. havo imtde ■ enci ' ; m RcM appear in a milder light. IP 13 observed that thg. long duration of Wench warfare and the necessity for congrant endurance in positions oE danger cxKite the nerves, and that modern.""weapons Keiiously disturb "moral equilibrium." It 9" la6<l tha , t > smce men Wave been called f.p uti a^ J *ljtoUJuaece<aary in former wars,

nany men have had to go into the field " who physically and mentally cannot, satisfy :he t'uli requirements made in time of peace." Further considerations are the length of the [>enods during which oilicerts and men are at L-lose quarters in trenches and dugouts, and "the short period of training of. vonm-- soldiers." The Socialists :ire proposing thai, the Reichshall tsend petitions to* the Government, m favor of tlie earliest possible reform of the right of appeal against- military sentences, less severe censorship of letters, and provision that- soldiers who are sent home or in hospital wounded or ill shall be jiven a" proper amount of leave before retuwiiug to t:ie front or to their headquarters.

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