Alleged Brutality to Boys m the Navy.
. An energetiV protest is made m the Western Morning News against ithe excessive punishment of boys on board her majesty's ship Northumberland.; Her crew includes 140 boys. ' <: "Duririg the late cruise, and also since her arrival home, the amount of corporal punishment inflicted is (the Western Morning News say.s) truly horrifying. [AU, most every morning batches of the boys, from half-a-dozen to eighteen, m number, .have been, caned or birched, chiefly the former, with great severity, the sufferers often being removed m various stages, of insensibility. The ship's corporal has been repeatedly enjoined to greater vigour by the officer superintending these floggings, and 'the bruised ancl bleeding backs of boys, and their writhings and howls,, have' testified to the vigour of his arm. The frequency and., severity of these . punishments have become a matter of loud protest among the ablebodied blue-jackets, who are themselves protected by law from similar tortures. The offences for which these almost daily whippings have been inflicted are said to be of a trival" character.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 73, 27 February 1885, Page 4
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176Alleged Brutality to Boys in the Navy. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 73, 27 February 1885, Page 4
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