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THE COURT MARTIAL OF LIEUT,
SUTOR.
THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
On the sitting of the Court.
The President mentionel that there had appeared some photographs in the papers which had obviously been taken inside the fort. At the opening
of the court-martial as said Press photographers. serasamned that us photographe would be
be taken insido Tynemouth Fort. That warning had not been deeded, because at least three photographs had been taken. He would romind photographers that under the provisions of the Military Secrets Act they were liable to criminal proceedings for taking photographs,
insido the
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Lieutenant B Butor addressing the Court, said before going into the question of his defence be wished that the question which had been raised with regard to his sanity might be completely oleared up. He desired this because there was a prospect that ho mig t have to throw himself on the labour market and he might be seriously pro judiced in teard to getting empleymont if there was any doubt as to whether at any time thors was a foundation for the statement that he had off his head. He would temporarily wono wish, therefore, to call the medical offer who had been in daily attendance on him since his arrest. He would also like to call his personst servant and samo of the officers who had served with him in Tynomouth.
The President said there would be uo objec.response on to this
done. being
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tion
Colonel Machishon, Gunner II. Harris (the accused's servant), and Sarzoon Lieutenant Blandy, RAMS. (T.),all agreed in stating that Lieutenant Sater had never shown any trace or insanity. The medical offcer said symptom of
very emphatically that there never was at any time the smalleel foundation for suggesting that the nooused officer had in the least degree lost his mental balance. He had also inquired into the secured's family history, and there was no trace of insanity, to be found in It
·
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THE THIRTT MILLIONS.
take in lodgers, but he made a little by sellinr sonse, His point was that he did not think that the vegetables out of his back garden. He because a mat was a lord, or was not, or had would really have admired the Governor for that some industrial foundation, he had any more he had only had the courage to go round with right to load British holliers than the the eart himself. Well. after eight years abroad,, village banker because he was banker. Be tween the two, he would himself prefer the lord, be returned home, to find thast things were in s worse condition than over with the Army system. but the one test for its leader ehould be that he A military hypocrisy had arisen, no doubt in i was efficient. But that was not the line followed
in a strenuous demand for it Officers in this country, were engazed in organising military pageants, and soldiers word being taught to slug odes of pesce, bat no bettor facilities existed for attaining eficiency that had existed ten year before. In old days, twenty or thirty years
mòn came into efficiency, but under Mr. Haldane's la men were now coming into the Army without any kind of educational teet whatever-men! who were not officient at present, and who would have no opportunity, so far as the Army system is concerned, of ever being efficient,
latest reform
War Minister.
Well, he
The men responsible for the Army system SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE,
took about the asme interest in the efforts of Lieutenant Sutor then proceeded to make his final address in his defence. He said he wished ofleers to become efficient as they took in the efforts of Territorials to become eficient ia first to direct the attention of the Court to the
peace; that was to say, they looked upon both fact that he had joined the Army under some.
with complete and absolato indifference and what unusual conditions. He was older than most
was that British Ragalar troops would be as Iffe then he obtained his cammission. In the badly led in war as the Territorials were badly first place, he had graduated at a University, led during face. Mr. Haldane was as much at and had had a good legal training. In
addition, he hat sated for some little late as headmasters with his land forces as Mr. McKenna was on sterland with his audiens fleet. Ever since it was of a school. He mentioned these personal facts disserered during the Boath African War that so as to enable the Court to realise that his
the builders of our military house were not point of view military affairs had been sowo-
utilising their bricks and bricklayers to the bost what unigas. He hoped this would to some
possible advantage, military jerry-builders had extent at least explain the attitude he had found
necessary to take up with regard to the pra-ben perambulating the country, asking for mers bricks and more bricklayers, thengh, thank sent Arms
to entering system. Previona
the God, eze or two of them had recently been sent Army he knew nothing of the conditions of bia
Atray to announce the death of King. Edward future military life. He was informed that the artillery was the most dangerous branch of tho ervice, and he was a good deal terrified at the idea of getting a big shell in the stomach. At that time he was suffering somewhat from a
offloors, and had had cousiderable experience of offered no facilities to either. The prospect When he published his pamphlet ke took a big
weak stomach. He had no private means, and joined the Army with the intention of making
and which nobody
it was, did
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION,
Ha wished to mention one little personal matter. Previous to entering the Army he had a special training as an instructor, having gone through a course of training as sa instructor at a Scottish University. His services at instructor might have been of some value in the
tional methods which arist in the service
did Army insu
inaugurated
Then, with regard to the thirty millions year. He could not say much about that boonuse he had not seen very much of it, but he believed there was some prospect of getting more. The War Becretary had said the officers had his sympathy with regard to that matter. That was a painful thing. He did not mean about the money; be would he willing to consider the part of it favourably, but ha was Korry to see British officers humiliated by boing told that they had the sympathy of the British Ho (Lieutenant Butor) had
bo been told he was not a serious man, had spoken seriously now, and the only hope had in his heart was that what he had said and done would do something to prevent other people from suffering in the same way se he had suffered.
wife and fatally, but he had brought out what loap. He had no private means, and he had he wished to bring out. He had got a hearing, not perhaps a full hearing, but at least one each as was not given to avagy officer. It might havs boen possible for the Army Council to ignore the pamphlet altogether. He thought
Arus
Council I wished to ignore it. When the it was first published, he seat copies to the Army Council and they took no notice, and it де to have any effort at all. Then he wrote something about it himself, and sent it to
London newspaper. The editer it
put
in with flaring headlines, and then the
Army Council a grest doal had to take notice. It had takon of trouble on a his. together. Technically, he was the necused and part to bring this court-martial the court were technically his judges, but, when all was considered, he thought the boot was on
à got to say. the other log. That was all he had
A number of officers, including Colcad Mac.
not goo
thom sgrood in saying that he was an excellent
The first day he joined his captain took him. Mirister who he the most marvellous War Prompt in kle obedienos to the orders of his
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JUDGE ADVOCATE'S SUMMING UP. The Judge Advocate (Major Buckley) briefly summed up the case, setting out the points upon which the Court had to decide. There was, ho said, evidence bearin directly on the charge
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career for When he joined there was absolutely nothing for him to do. His work seeupied him for about thirty minutes | Army, but be found very early that his person Mahon, R.G.A.. Major Morrico, E.G.A., Cap- being concentrated chance, was absolutely fatile any alteration or modification of the instruc. and Lieutenant Percival, R.G.A., were called to and inane. It consisted in signing paper to day as they had existed for centuries. His sole testify to the obaracter of the accused. All of which he did not understand it very much, but pressure in this direction had consisted in hear officer, a good instructor, and always ready ani else understood. Ho
the marvellous improvements in the his enjoyment, keen and Intense
ing about not blind him to the
ever abourdity of it.
been inflicted on a long to his rooms, and showed him his (the captain's) suffering country. But nevertheless he thought gold love, all carefully wrapped up. in tissue great improvements might be made in the methods of instruction employed in the Army paper. By half-past ten in the morning his work For instance, in the field artillery a very simple for the day was completed, and in the afternoon instrument called a director was used for he was
was left entirely to bis own resources; not a RES single soal was to be seen anywhere, and hearing angles.
Bat be defied added,
axy intelligent man to understand the use of pamphlet in which views were expressed an mili with myself."
the director after listening to the explanation try subjects. There was also evidence bear.
ing less directly on the charge with regard Secretaries of War had not yet begun to
and instructions of any worgenut-instructor, deliver speeches on the magnificent reforma
then became a very complicates actor. It grievances real or impposed of the pool to Those grievances were (a) with regard to his which they had introduced into the Army, indeed, and no wonder it took six months to sanity; (b) with regard to the terms of reference otherwise he might have spent the afternoons
learn how to use it. (Colonel Brown, B.H.A, to the Court of Inquiry; (c) grievances with in reading them.
a member of the Court, laughed heartily at this
regard to the cancellation of his appointment as TRON, Steel, Metal and Hardware Merchants, description of the director.)
adjutant; and (d) a grievance that it was the
Wholesale and Retail Ironmongara, Pig Continuing, Lieutenant Sutor referred to duty of the superior offers of the seemed in Iron and Foundry Coke Importers. General Army discipline, and said that for ten years he the Northern Command rather than bizself to Etarskapers nad Shipohandlers. Nos. 35 & 37, had been perfectly subordinate and respectful take the initiative when his bonear was in ques. HING LONG STREET, (2nd St. west of Central to his enperior officers. It was a rery painful tion The scoused bad wished to show that he Market), Telephone No. 515. duty which bad compelled him to speak about a was justified in writing the paropblet by the system with which we were connected for circumstances attending his grievances, and also whom he had the highest and most intense by his ten years' experience in the Army, and by D respect. There was it personal animosity in the trath of the statements contained anything he had said with regard to the Army is his pamphlet. The Court had ruted out gridoncs as to the truth or falsehood of the system, but when the commissioned ranke concerned discipline seemed to go off at a statements. The Court would consider whether tangent. There was something wrong when it the grievances complained of were the reasons was made impossible for an officer to have which induced in caused the accused to write but if he wrote nine volumes he could not supplied grounds for establishing extenuating
the Army system really was. On the contrary, he was impressed by their The accused was procending to refer to desire to remember everything and forget incident in which Admiral Lord Charlos Heres nothing. But the system was not conducive to ford and Admiral Sir Paray Boott were con- the goquisition of military knowledge, or to the cerned, when the President said it would be of duties which required military better not to go into personalities,
A PLEA FOR PERSONALITIES. officers
equipped in a military Lieutenant Bator said he thought it sense, but it did nothing to help them to retain would be well if people went more into person their efficiency or to attain to a higher standard.alities. An extraordinary state of civilisation Many offers maintained their efficiency and had been strained on that point, and it would be
but
not because their condi- much better if things or said openly for even in prevod se tired to do it. Bficiency which were grounds, and it was in the Army appeared to him to be more or less the public interest. The avoidance of person in these day was carried too far. It was personal idiosyncrasies of the offerre.
After two years service at home he was coat few liars. In the matter of pollies there was abroad, and served for rearly eight years con- always the necessary number, but it was a ter posed no military decorations or reward, tinuously in
"different parts of the world witte thing if in a nation of 40,000,000 vf people and his Army and regimental rank was that Things were better and happier abroad thau at there was nobody who was not afraid to say home except when inspectors general came to that there were liars. That was a national faspect them, or other inspectors came to reduce calamity. It might be said that in speaking of the defen.cas. There had been some comment the matters with which he had dealt he was decision. The Court recommended that the to what he had said the previous day about merely seeking motor for the public attention. King by the advice of the Secretary of State
to be a sort of
*1. Lieutenant be dismissad the servicë, hat the generais doing things which the rank and Sle rival with
Crip of that sort in his wind would not do. He referred to that because it There was nothing
werk
for learning nothing and forgetting everything inga which he believed to be wrong inquired the pamphlet and whether thèse grovanens
He did not suggest that offers elected es a
matter of personal skoles to forzet ovarything. Are any fair idea of what his point of view once, and, it so. whether these
The
Bowlton, relied entirely 03
tions of
circumstances amounted to
justifontion for the contravention of paragraph 453 of the King's Regulations.
The room was they cleared while the members
of the Court deliberated as to their fading.
When the pablis were re-nämitted, Captain Robertson was called to state the accused's military record. He stated that the consed. Lieutenant Allen John Sufor, of the 47th Company. R.G.A., was the person ref-rred to in the charge. He had never previously been convicted of any offence. He had been thirty-
age in military custody awaiting
charge preferred against him. His ace was 35 years sud 96 days, and he had served ten years The accavert
a personal matter, and to be left entirely to the possible for-erary country to support and 101 days in the Army.
of lieutenant.
Tho
putting in of this record completed. the proceedings.
We have published telegraphic news of the
for War, reduced tho sentence to a reprimand}
KÉSSRS, PALCONER & CO. BEGISTER
"Oobber-6th-
was a matter of universal comment in the service He had done what he had done quite regard. that these things ought not to be done: man tess of public opinion or any other opinion. Ho allowing themselves to be made the tools of had done what he believed to be his duty, because Secretaries for War and people of that it was his duty, and for no other reason, People kind, Men in high positions to the Army nowadaye were dying to be deceived. Ther could be found to do dirty work that the wished to be told that the pressut prosperity rank and file would not do. The result was and happiness would go on for eternity. He that there was not a single garrison in wished i ooald, but it could ot, and it was Barometer 9.x.2997 Therm. (Wetbalby a ▲ 78 our possession which did not represent a scanda time that somebody said something. In this Barometer Ir. 293 Therm.(Warbulbs) 1 r. 2
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Barometer 4 P.2997 Thera/Wetbulb) 4r.n 72 The defences of the Tyne, to which he refer people demanded proof, eren of the Almighty, | Thermom. 9 am: 27: Therma. Marimar
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thist
There were only two people in this country Thermen 4 29 to expose this condition the Secretary for War, and the other was the
no
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