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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUES JAY, OCTOBER 4TH, 1910.

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THE COURT-MARTIAL OF A

„LIEUT. SUTOR.

The following is the Tivacs report of the dust day's proceedings ----

Lieutenant Alan Butor was brought before a Court-martial at Tynemonth Castle on a charge arising cat of the publication of his pamphlet entitled, "The Army System: Why Muddle Through Thirty Millions Your Daring Pease" The charge was that he had been of conduct contrary to good order and discipling by having confrwrened the regulation which a soldier or offer is forbidden to publish the aty militang information, or or issue, either directly or indirectly,

his vio

rows upon any military subject, without having special authority, Major-General G. M. the West Riding Division of the Major Hasil Buckley, as Judge Advocate, pro- secuted; and Lieutenant Sator conducted lie

The socused pleaded "Not Guilty." Evidence was given that Liestenant Enter gage instructions for the publication of the

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It was clear in his mind that Lieutenant Sutor ¡n." The days, it is true, are sometimes incon- was sent to Aldershot for Court of Inquiry, realently hot, but the nights are always delici that in consequenos of his inability to obtains ously cool. A few miles frota the cost, the certificats of the School of Signalling he was country rises into a huge table land, the average not considered good enough for the adjutancy, attitude of which is about 1,200 feet. San "SQUARE BOTTLE” and that lontannat Suter had pablished stroke is unknown. There is a tropical rainy the pamphlet. The recolection of the witness season for three months in the year, during was that he was told that the accused had been which it is met oasy to work. sent down from the Biganling Sebook because which, he said, had been going on at the school

had objected to certain improper practices which that the commandant required him to give the names of the offers whom he made the charges against; and that he declined, to name the floors; and was told in consequence that bo must leave the school.

MIGRANTE WANTED.

Block, C.B., Critorial Forces, presided; possible to obtain copies of certain test messages for the Australian Commonwealth, who is noting

Own

pamphant-Colonel MacMahon, in command versati

com

is a misnomer. I have encountered," he continued, "Beveral

travels, but they have always been interspersed

feeding o

country."

As an agricultural centre the country is full of possibilities. It is an admirable whost- growing district, and rice, sagar, cotton bananas, and coconuts could also be cultivated, in addition ton large variety of tropical and amb-tropion! plants. What is needed, according to Mr. Canning, to develop the resources of the region In reply to further questions, the witness said is the completion of a trans-Continental line that his impression was that the Court of from Adelaida to the north and from the west Inquiry established that Lieutenant Sutor bad const to Bydney. asked the sergeant-major whether it was not Bir George Reid, the Commissioner-General which wars being used at the officera school as a sort of sponsor for Mr. Canning, asked before the tests came off, and that is also whether there was any considerable portion sant-major that certain ofloors of Australian territory that could properly bo Informed the sergeant-major were

tho writing t mossages before the tests regarded as dooort. Mr. Canning thought came off. The sergeant major reported the there was no

The word desert,'" said he, conversation to the commandant, who sent for him to name of the Royal Garrison Artillery at Tynemouth, the officers whom he had

Lieutenant Suter and ed. Lieutenant belts of waste country in the course of my said that the accused had been under hit was thought that an investigation was desirable with patchered: mand since Jane leat year.

On July 15 the accused was at the Castle. He never asked the witness to sanction, the publication of the pamphlet, and he never asked for the sanction of any higher authority through the witness. He first heard of the publication in a telegram from the War Offlos asking for an explanation. Between the date of the Court of Inquiry and the date of the publication of the pamphlet the accused made no application to the witness under paragraph 439 of the King's Regulations and section 42 of the Army Act for the redress of any wrong or grievance in which he himself WAI concerned. He over complained te waytion it was justified in the interests of justion.

officer. inspecting

He believed that Lieutenant Sutor's question The socused-I was never guilty of insubor to the sergeant-major whether test messages dination; you never had any foult to find with were obtainable was capable of being taken as a mé ?- Never.

dosize on his, part to obtain the messages. The witness considered that the question put to the sergeant-major would justify the reference.

I did not complain of any grievance, but you were in possession of all the faste about me, and it was unnecessary for me to put you in posses sion of facts of which you were already posses sed. Did you know of any circumstances which would justify my honour being impagned P-No. Do you take the view that my bonone was impugned-Certainly; your honour was made the subject of a Court of Inquiry

Was I absolved from eusploion of having done anything that involved my honour-Yes.

The fast that I was allowed to remain in the Service does not necessarily mean that there was no foundation for the charge No; it means that the charge, whatever it war, was not proven. It does not prove that there was no foundation for H

Brigadier-General Altham, in charge of the administration Northern Command, said that no permission was given for the publication of the pamphlet by the Gonerai Officer Command- ing or by the Army Council. The accused bad made no representation that he had any grievanes for which he sought redreas.

The 20

soused-Will you tell me what use it would have been to me if I had represented that 1 had a grievance It would have been investigated.

By whom By the General Offer Com wanding in accordance with the Army Ast

You are aware that my ho our was impugned at on inquiry at Aldershot -No; no implion tion was mado apen your honour.

CROSS-ELIMINATION BY LIEUTENANT KUTOR, The sooned in his cross-examination of the witness suggested that there was made

the against him in

Coart of Inquiry at Aldershot a charge of having attempted to bribe the sergeant major at the Signalling School in the reference whether he the sergeant-major and asked him il-

Sator declined to do so, and on these facts it

in the interests of Lieutenant Sutor and the other offers concerned. He considered that the holding of a Court of Inquiry was justified, The acetsed-Even when there is an acquittal on a chargu?

The conclusion of the whole matter would seem to be that here is a country positively orging for emigrants. The number of uses to which it could be applied is legion. Speaking of the northern part of Australia, Mr. Canning said: "It is the best country for horse-breed- The witness replied that there was no quening I have ever soon, snd, if the Imperial tion of a charge. If facts arose causing suspi cien of any person an investigation was justified. In the case of an acquittal an investigation was justised because it cleared the persons wxurio from suspleion, and in the cass of a

The accused That is to say that I was attempting to bribe the sergeant major ?—Thst is one of the possible interpretations.

The accused cortanded that the fact that the adjutancy was taken away from him after the Court of Inquiry showed that it was the result of the hairy and led his friende to think that there is something in the charge..

The accused saked the witness whether he had known of any reflection apu his character, and the witness replied that there was a anggestion that the sccused was unusual in looks and

manner.

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Government coull be induced to take the matter for our Indian remounte."--- up, would make an excellent breeding station So much for the "never-nover" country of Australia.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:?

On the 3rd at 11.55. a.m.-The barometer has risen slightly over N. China and Japan, and fallen a little in the Philippines.

Pressure appears to be low over the Pacifis to the E. or N.E. of Luzon.

Areas of high pressure are lying to the North. of Japan, and over China to the North of the Yangtze valley.

Strang N.. winds may be szpected over the N. part of the Chien Ben

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.. to day, 0.05 inches,

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows:-~~

N.E. winds, Hongkong & Neighbourhood

freak fue. ĮN.E. winds, Formosa Channel

1.

strong South coast of China between ) Sama as No. 1

Hongkong and Lamooks. VALUE OF 80-CALLED DEBERTS IN AUSTRALIA. South coast of China between į

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SPINIFEX COUNTRY.

Australia is still an unknown continent, and: the idea is even yet prevalent that for the most part it consists of vast stretches of arid and un caltirable desert. That such a belief is founded: on nothing better than ignorance was clearly demonstrated by Mr. A. W. Canning in the course of an informal chat with gumo newspaper representatives at the Commonwealth Offloor in Victoria Street, London.

Mr. Canning has lived in Australia all his Life, and for the last nine years > has been living in that part of the contin at which is fondly believed to be aninhabitablo. appears to thrive on it. Sanburnt, 'square- shouldered, and with a fund of suppressed energy, you would not take him for the man of forty-eight that he really is,

During the last few years Mr. Canning has

approcerible to obtain the test been engage in the task of destroying

messages

it was before the examination, and whether, so, it was merely for the purpose of information or from a desire to obtain the test messages for himself. He suggested also that his appointment to an adjutancy in the Territorial Forces result of the Court of Inquiry and Cancelled ES & not, as was stated, because he had failed to ob tain a signalling certificate. The accused read the reference to a question on test meges by as to the possibility of obtaining the bribery, and he asked whether his Lonour was bot Impagned fo this.

The witness replied that it depended entirely upon the finding of the Court of Inquiry.

The accused said that it was abvious that it did involve his hencur.

The witness added that no charge was mada in the instractions against any individual. The instructions were in view of the investiga tion of sortsin matters by the Court of Inquiry and of certain eridenen given. If there had beon Bay ground for a charge against any individual the charge would have been made.

The accused-I am not asking you whether

made:

■ charge was I am asking you, whether any charge was investigated.

The witness I think that my previous answer was sufficient, that no charge was made against any individual.

The acensed nail that the witness had suggest. ed that he had not made any complaint as to a griawan, His point was that it was the unty of the General at York, who was in pccassion of full knowledge of the char.e that had been made against hind, to see that justice was done to him, and he wanted to find out what was the impression left upon the General'a mind with regard to the charge.

The accused read the reference and asked the witness whether it raised any suspicion in his mind with regard to his honour. The witness replied that it did not in view of the decision of the Army Concil.

Did you get the references before the decision of the Army Council They were received in the office.

illusions for the benefit of humanity. Til 1907 it was believed that practically the whole of Central Australis was unft for occupation, and that no water was to be found there. Mi Canning proceeded to demonstrate the falsity of such an assumption.

'INTO THE UNKNOWN.

be got," he said. The result was an expedition into the so-called desert, atted out by Mr. Cauning biaself. At the and of twelve months, daring which 1,000 miles had been covered, Mr. Canning found, and reported, that water was obtainable, and, later on, at the instigation of the Government, he constructed a water route.

"I was ander the impression that water could

A second oxpedition into the unknown regions of North Western Australia was then equipped, in the conres of which Mr. Canning constructed the route for a distance of about 800 miles, the nome fifty odd wells. These were placed along

remainder the portion being aufficiently watered.

As the area traversed was entirely devoid of population, the expedition had to take a sufficient quantity of food to last twenty six men for two years. For this purpose 400 goats were pressed into the service. It was impossible to carry tinned meat, owing to the fear of an outbreak of.

scurry. These goats bred all along the ronte, and their meat was found very sweet and nutritions by the members of the expedition. They b supplied the party with milk, too..

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HÜGA UNDIVELOPED TRACT. The principal herb in the "region is spinifex. While much of this plant is quite asaless for any domestic purpose, the best is edible; and makes excellent cattle fodder,

The accused asked whether the reference raised any suspicion in the mind of the witness with regard to him. The witness replied that he had seen the original letter and found that he had initialled it, and therefore he must have soon it. The instructions in the latter were that Lientennat Sator was to proceed to Aldershot for an investigation into the irrega larites alleged or implied, and that Lieutenant Bator was to be informed of this. He finer quality than eran those in the South. afraid that he could not recall at the moment the exact conclusion that he formed. He did not think that he came to any definite conclu sion.

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THE ALDERSHOT 'INQUIRY. The accused asked whether there was any thing in the other terms that prevented him

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