Word: martially
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Good soldiers winced, like the folks at home, when they heard that U.S. service troops in France had been systematically stealing and selling cigarets, gasoline, food and arms needed by their fighting comrades at the front. Last week the Army (and court martial witnesses) told more about one of the sorriest scandals in recent military history...
...court martial was unimpressed. Every one of the first 16 soldiers to face it was sentenced to prison and hard labor. The lightest sentence: 25 years. The heaviest : life...
Some courts-martial have been completed, and others are in process. But no U.S. smuggler will get the punishment already dealt out to several Chinese accomplices. They were executed...
...Bread, No Beds. In the slowly reviving capital, life collapsed completely. Martial law and the general strike ordered by EAM paralyzed all public services. Shops closed, trams stopped, streets emptied. Conditions at Athens' Hospital of the Evangelist had been bad enough before the fighting began. Now so many civilians had been wounded that there was not enough of anything, except drugs, to care for them. Patients lay on mattresses on the floor. Even the doctors' offices, reception rooms and corridors were full of wounded...
Last week, three days after the shooting, Private George E. Smith Jr., of Pittsburgh, was arrested on a charge of murdering Sir Eric Teichman, Private Leonard S. Wijpacha of Detroit on a charge of being an accessory. A U.S. Army court-martial prepared to hear evidence in an ancient English crime: murder by poachers...