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that unless by something more than good conduct they earn remission they will have to serve the punishment. They were in fact illegally in the trenches being under 18, and will be sent back to England till they are old enough for the butcher. That is Army justice. If the death sentence were carried out, the boys would not have been sentenced to death at all. X should certainly have been shot as a deliberate shirker, and to blacken the other two with even a nominal sentence of 10 yrs. P..S. is unfair, But the whole question of sentences here, owing to the defects in the Suspension of
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