§ Sir THOMAS BRAMSDONasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the sentence 462W of two years' imprisonment, to be followed with dismissal from His Majesty's service, which was recently passed on Stoker Ernest Bowness, of the cruiser "Leviathan," by a naval court-martial, on charges of using threatening and insulting language to and attempting to strike with a weapon Stoker Petty Officer Charles Edwin Wood, of the same ship; whether the prisoner received provocation; and whether, notwithstanding the seriousness of the offence committed and the fact that the prisoner bore an indifferent character, he will consider the possibility of reducing this sentence?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe Board, when reviewing this court martial, reduced the sentence from two years to one year.