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...must openly admit that my leadership was at fault," said the 69-year-old Generalissimo. But he added that he "could well understand the indignation of the masses" at the court-martial verdict that completely cleared a U.S. Army master sergeant in the shooting of a Chinese "Peeping Tom" before his house...
19th Century Memories. Actually, criminal offenses by the U.S. military on Formosa have been unusually low. There have been only five courts-martial in the past two years. On the other hand, many smaller crimes and misdemeanors go unreported, first because the Chinese, like people the world over, hesitate to get involved in the law's delay, and second because of a deep-rooted feeling on the part of many Chinese that they will not get justice even if they seek it. It was this raw nerve that the court-martial's acquittal of the sergeant touched...
Easier Sentences. The fact is that on the record, U.S. military abroad generally get lighter sentences when tried and convicted under local laws than under their own. In Germany last year, seven G.I.s were tried by a U.S. court-martial for rape. The Germans started to protest bitterly that they should try the case, fell silent when the court-martial sentenced four of the defendants to life imprisonment, the others to 40 years. The maximum sentence for first-offense rape under German law: three years...
Next day the Chinese widow appeared outside the grey-walled U.S. embassy carrying a crudely lettered placard bearing the inscription, in English and Chinese: "The Killer-Reynolds-Is Innocent? Protest Against U.S. Court-Martial's Unfair, Unjust Decision." Newspapeir editorials charged angrily that if Reynolds had killed an American, he would not have got off scot-free...
Flustered Nationalist officials, obviously unprepared for the outburst, finally called out troops. From his mountain retreat at Sun Moon Lake in central Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sped north to Taipei, called out a total of 33,000 troops, placed Taipei under martial law, imposed strict curfew regulations. Total estimated casualties: at least two Chinese killed, nine Americans injured, one seriously...