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Show ARMY INJUSTICE IS CITED BY LAWYER WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Reform in army court-martial procedure was urged before a senate military subcommittee today to-day by William BiEsell Thomae, a Minneapolis Minne-apolis lawyer, who served two years in the American expeditionary forces. Many cases of alleged excessive and harsh court-martial sentences for trivial offenses among the American forces abroad were detailed by Mr. Thomas, who said he was courtmartialed and sentenced to a prison camp in France for four months on a charge of being absent without with-out leave, due to having been sick In a hospital. The witness also told of having seen Paul Smith of Bisbee, Ariz., whose leg was shattered at Chateau Thierry, arrested ar-rested while still confined in the hospital because he was physically unable to make up his own bed. Smith was sent to a prison camp and required to work beside Austrian prisoners until guards took pity upon him and returned him to the hospital. |