ANOTHER VIEW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 17 January 1913, Page 7

ANOTHER VIEW.

To The Editor Stratford Evening Post. Sir, —In your issue of this evening I notice" that you put the heading “Death before Dishonour” to a cablegram which referred to the suicide or a junior officer and a seaman on a German battleship—after they had quarrelled over a breach of discipline. Should the heading not rather have been “Death with Dishonour”? for surely the dishonour of cowardly taking one’s life to escape punishment is greater by far than that which would accompany their being cashiered or set down ‘in the service! Are not the words “Death before Dishonour” usually applied to cases where men will face death from othcis lathei than do a dishonourable thing, or say a woman as a last extremity taking her life to save her person being dishonoured. These cases seem somehow different from suicide to escape merited punishment.—l . PERCY THOMSON. Stratford, 15.1.13.