| Show LIGHT OFFENSE IN ARMY GIVEN J REA HEAVY VY PENALTY PENAL IT ITI I Military I 01 Affairs Committee Told of Y 20 Year 20 e r. r Term Terni For Disobedience I Br r 1 Washington Feb Fel 1 IS t 1 C story story- of 0 i j I how lio- a young oung man ian only j I Idas Ida's i days das In the military s service r of or his Ills country was 6 s 's sentenced to tu to to thirty years years' Imprisonment 1 tr 1 3 a corn com com el slight Infraction of or military j 1 la law was related to the Senate Senat military affairs committee ti b today by Brig Gun Gen F. F T. T Ansell acting Judge advocate general The committee 1 hearings on Senat r B i 1 TI t Ti w T 1 io t iy i laws and d change chango c courts courts- rt martial customs Tho The of or military Injustice re referred referred re- re to followed a reprimand administered admin to a soldier In ono one of or the tho cantonments cantonments can- can I for Cor smoking a while on Oil kitchen police dut duty duly The man j jaa j aa as new to the dut duty and doubtless unfamiliar un- un un-j un familiar with military customs resu- resu j lations Lilians and requirements General Ansell Ansell Ansell An- An I sell thought When tho the reprimand administered administered ad- ad I ministered lJ by a second lieutenant who probably was new new also was followed by a dem demand that tha t tho plan nan man hand hantl over oci ills nis lB CIs to the tho lieutenant ho he re refused refused re- re fused with what General Ansell Ansehl characterized char char- as raucous language and ind was placed d under under arrest IOD Long I Sentence Charges of or disobedience and to an officer were preferred against him and a martial court found him guilty and ho was waa sentenced to twenty 01 or thirty years ears Tho The findings were approved ed b by the commanding officer officer of or- fleer tho the authority convening the court When hen Senator New Nci ew o of Indiana suggested sug sag hested that the tho lieutenant in question should In view of the tho Inexperience of oC f the offender have havo cautioned him and helped him to understand requirements of or military law and customs Senator Thomas said sharply Any man but a damned fool tool would have havo done cIone so 80 Senator Thomas added that any system system tem tern that would por permit nH such a thing to happen was not nol only un American and unthinkable but would make BolshevIst Bolshevists vista vIst of or ever every o relative the tho man had hall lie Ho added also that he lie would now be begIn begin begin be- be gin to understand why It was so 80 difficult difficult cult to keep the regular arm army complement complement com com- full Cull in peace times ird Another Instance cited h by General Ansel was the case of or several noncommissioned noncom noncom- officers in an art artillery batter battery battery bat bat- ter tery stationed In Texas arrested for shooting shoaling craps claps In the thc company compan street Their commander command r found Cound them absent and antI ordered them to report for Cor drill Relying on the mill military tal re regulation that thal a L noncommissioned officer shall perform no duty duly when un under er arrest they refused A charge of oC mutinous conduct was then Jod lodged ed against thorn thom and they were given sentences o of from lom three to eight years' years Imprisonment and dishonorable discharges es The rhe department depart depart- ment reviewed tho the case said sahi General but could do nothing legally ally to i modify the thc sentences |
