31 MARCH 1933, Page 6

Since the decision of the court-martial on Lieut. Baillie-Stewart has

not been promulgated any comment on the substance of the case would be improper. But it is at least permissible to say something on the procedure. The ordinary public knows little about courts-martial and its belief in their fairness and justice will be greatly confirmed if the court over which General Dugan presided may be taken as a typical example. Nothing could have been more scrupulously fair than the able summing- up by the Judge-Advocate, Mr. Sutherland-Graeme, and it would be hard to point to a word spoken either by him or by the President that was not strictly impartial and