FORCED TO RESIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 December 1907, Page 2

FORCED TO RESIGN.

LIEUT, WOODS' CASE. ■' Received 19tli, 10.5 p.m. London, December 19. Lieut. Woods was summoned under article 477 to resign or be removed, lie resigned, protesting against the decisionwhicU, on grounds that he and his ad-, viscrs considered insufficient and iuadei (juate, closes his military career.

In this case, a decision came to hand last week. Lieut. Woods, of the second battalion of the Grenadier Guards, alleged that, because he was more studious than the others, bis career had been impeded owing to his superiors boycotting Mm, hoping lie would resign. The Army Council —Mr Haldane, Secretary for War; the Earl of Portsmouth, Parliamentary Under-Sec-retary; Generals Lyttelton, Douglas, Nicholson and Murray; Mr Buchanan, M.P., Financial Secretary ; and Colonel Sir E. W. X). Ward, Secretary—afterl considering the report of a committee of enquiry, found {hat Lieut. Woods' had been inefficient as a regimental officer, and that his reTentioiT in the service would not be to Ihe interest of the army. The Council acquitted his superior brother-officers of the charge of being actuated by prejudice or Was, but thought some pressure was wrongly lrnusrht to hear to induce Lieutenant Woods to resign from the regiment.