ALLEGED BRUTALITY TO BOYS IN THE NAVY.
An energetic protest is. made, in tho Western Morning News against'the exoejisive punishment of boys oil bo'ard Her Majesty's ship Northumberland, Her orewincludes 140 boys. "During tho late oruise and also since her arrival home the amount of corporal punishment inflicted is (the Western Morning News says) truly horrifying. Almost every morning batohes of the boys, from half-a-dozen to eighteen in number, have been caned or birched, chiefly the former, with groat seventy, tho sufferers ofton being removed in various stages of insensibility, 'Jiho BJilp's corporal has beon repeatedly enjoinedto"greater vjgpv bj.the pfficer superintending theso floggings;" and m bruised and bleeding backß of the boys/ and their writhings and howls, liavo testi(led to tho vigor of his arm, The frequency and sevority of these punishments have become a matter of loud protest among the ablebodied blue-jackets, who are themselves protected by law from ■ snu|lar tenures. The offences for which lliese' aljnpjf flapy' VKJ|fpping-h&i;e; jjqs.jj jnfljeted are said to be of a trivial'. cliarac : tej\' '" " •••-• ' . ' "
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1944, 20 March 1885, Page 2
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171ALLEGED BRUTALITY TO BOYS IN THE NAVY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1944, 20 March 1885, Page 2
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