At Tynemouth on Saturday last a Court-Martial concluded the trial
of Lieutenant Allan Sutor, R.A., on the charge of having been guilty of " conduct contrary to good order and discipline " in publishing a pamphlet entitled " The Army System : Why Muddle through Thirty Millions a Year during Peace ? " Mr. Suitor addressed the Court in his own defence in a speech which was distinctly able in its way, being marked by direct and lucid expression. He explained that he had obtained a commission at an unusually late age, after having had a good deal of experience in civil life, partly as a schoolmaster. His life in the Army had opened his eyes. He found that he could do his work in about half-an-hour a day —surely a surprising statement nowadays—and there was no sort of encouragement to an officer to make himself specially efficient in his profession. He had therefore considered it his duty to call attention to this state of affairs, even though he infringed the Army Regulations by doing so. The Court announced that sentence would not be delivered for some days.
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