NAMBY-PAMBY SENTIMENT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 2

NAMBY-PAMBY SENTIMENT

FARMERS UPHOLD CAUDIN’S SENTENCE. Pnn Press Association. Hamilton, January 14. At a meeting of the Hamilton branch of the Farmers’ Union to-day, Mr McGregor, the president, reviewed the circumstances which led to the arrest and conviction of Gaudin. He said accused was believed to have German connections, was a member of a German firm, and had been proved to have German sympathies.’ A section of the Auckland people was moving to have the sentence set ■aside, but if this wore done it would be putting the military authorities at Samoa, who imposed what they considered an appropriate sentence, in a false position. The following resolution was car. ried unanimously“ That this branch of the Farmers’ Union distinctly objects to any interference whatever with tlie decision of the court-martial held upon F. E. N. Gaudin at Samoa, as it would place the administrators of Samoa in a false position to interfere with their decision.” All the members present agreed that the pieent was no time for namby-pamby sentiment; that if a man deliberately broke the law he must take the consequences. It W as further pointed out that bad a similar case occurred in Germany the punishment would have been far more drastic, and the offender would probably have been shot. It was decided to send a copy of the resolution to the Defence Ministr,