COURT-MARTIAL SENTENCES.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1918, Page 4

COURT-MARTIAL SENTENCES.

FAILURE TO ATTEND MEDICAL KXAMINATJON. By .Telegraph— Press Association. Christchurch, March D, Sentences wore announced to-day on three reservists who were tried by courtmartial for failing to nil end for medical examination. Kdward Mortimer Murium was sentenced to two years; John Roberts to eighteen months, and Andrew Kennaway Henderson to nine months' imprisonment, in each case with hard labor.

AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION. Christchurch, March !). ■ Tn connection with the court-martial sentences announced to-day, Colonel Chalfey, O.C. Canterbury District, who con firmed, the sentences, explained that the court- imposed a heavy sentence on Murrano because be, as a First Division reservist, tried to evade the authorities for fifteen inoiilhs and showed an obstinate disposition, refusing to be examined, and being against everything associated with service. Roberts did not refuse to come up when called on, and it was not necessary to arrest him, and he had a lighter sentence. Henderson, the well-known newspaper artist, came forward on his own initiative and did not expound his anti-militarist views in public, although he had held them for fifteen years past, and he received only nine months.