EASIER ON THE MEN
GAOL REPLACES FIRING SQUAD IN ARMY PENALTY FOR MISCONDUCT Reed. 11.5 a.m. RUGBY, Friday. A modification in the regulations regarding the death penalty in the Army and Air Force, which the Government will lay before Parliament, is detailed in the Army and Air Force Annual Bill. It is provided that the death penalty shall be abolished for the following offences on active service, and that the punishment for them shall be penal servitude: —Misbehaving or inducing others to misbehave before an enemy in such manner as to show cowardice; without orders from a superior officer leaving a guard, picket, patrol or post; by discharging firearms, drawing swords, beating drums, making signals, using words or by any means whatever intentionally occasioning false alarms in action, on a march, in the field or elsewhere; being a soldier acting as a sentinel, leaving a post before being regularly relieved The death penalty is retained for such acts as the shameful abandoning or delivering up of any place or garrison, shameful casting away of arms in the presence of an enemy, treachery or knowingly imperilling the active service success of His Majesty’s forces.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 9
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193EASIER ON THE MEN Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 9
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