THE GAUDIN CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 185, 15 January 1915, Page 8

THE GAUDIN CASE.

FARMERS UPHOLD THE SENTENCE, "NO TIME FOS NAMBY-PAMY SENTIMENT." By Telegraph p er Press Association. " ~ Hnmilton, Last Night. At a meeting of the Hamilton branch of the Jarmers' Union to-day Mr Mc<'iegor, the president, reviewed the circumstances which led to the arrest and convict.™ of Gaudin. He said accused as believed to have German connections was a member of a German to in, and haa been proved to have German sympathies. A section of the Auckland people was moving to have the {sentence set aside, but if this were 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 carried unanimously.—"That this branch of the farmers Union distinctly objects to any interference whatever with the decision oi the court-martJial held upon F. E. N. Gaudin at Samoa, as it would place the administrators of Samoa in a falio posi"P. 11 * 0 interfere witl ' their decision." •AU the members present agreed that the present vjas no time for namby-pambv sentiment; that if a man deliberately broke the law he must take the consequences. It was further pointed out that had 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 Minister.