ARMY DISCIPLINE.
NEW BILL IN AUSTRALIA. BRITISH METHODS OPPOSED. GENERAL AND DUKE’S SON By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received April 24, 11.45 p.m. Melbourne, April 24. An amending Defence Bill before th* Senate aroused a storm of protest, as there was a drag-net clause which incorporates the British Army Act intc the Australian Act and senators were asked to agree to this without being supplied with copies of the British Act Senator Pratten strongly criticised the Bill, stating that under the British Act there were possibilities of savage sentences and harsh discipline, contrary to the Australian ideas of freedom. Senator Elliott, a former BrigadierGeneral in the Expeditionary Force caused a sensation in the Chamber fey recounting his own experience through falling foul of a duke’s son prior to th* great offensive in France, as a result Of which he was denied all further promotion. He attributed his treatment to General Sir William Birdwood and accused General Sir Brudenell White of being an accessory and threatening to send hiin back to Australia if he raised a row. The Bill is unlikely to reach the House of Representatives this session.—Aus.* N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 April 1921, Page 5
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189ARMY DISCIPLINE. Taranaki Daily News, 25 April 1921, Page 5
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