NAVAL OFFICER IN TROUBLE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 153, 24 July 1909, Page 2

NAVAL OFFICER IN TROUBLE

LIEUT. FORD'S CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In reference to the Sydney cable that Lieutenant Ford, of the warship Pioneer, was reprimanded and dismissed for desertion through missing his passage from Wellington, the New Zealand Times says that Ford is a man about •U years of age. When the Pioneer reached Wellington the dissatisfaction winch lie felt with the service and the disagreements which he had had with us superior officers determined him to take the rash step which terminated in his disgrace. He represented to friend, that he desired to leave the Pioneer and obtain a position in the mercantile marine so he forwarded his written X T i0 !"> cai)tai " """I absented i nscl from the ship. He seems to have anticipated that this would lead to trouble because he went to the local l'oliec and asked if a warrant had been Sf TJ" a a PP r ehension. He was informed tins course had not been taken but two days later., hearing that est was imminent, he'gave himself L„h 7? ti,kc " *° thc ' Tcr «« Saol el'!"' •T" ai, - vs in i»BedS.to mint with other p riso „ C rs. This au.ed h,„i a good deal of misery, and He expressed ,leep regret at the iiupetu. mis action which hud led to his d*«i-ad-i-Hon, aud said he wished he had deferred his resignation until the Pioneer Xn an est to Sydney, lln ,i there dealt with as the cable indicated.