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CAMP DISCIPLINE.
NEW ORDERS ISSUED.
SYDN.EY, Friday.
;iTheo following orders in connection with
discipline at Liverpool and Casula camps
were issued to-day:
(1) The maximum evening leave to bhe
granted from those camps is to be 25 per
cent. anily, Saturdays excepted. General
leave for Saturday afternoon and evenlng
may continue for the present.
(2) Week-end leave may be granted to
a maximum of 25 per cent., and will com
mence not earlier than noon on Saturday,
and end on Sunday evening, except in
special individual cases, where the appli
cant is fully deserving of special con
sideration, and it is clear that he cannot
get back to camp on Sunday. evening.
(3) Officers, N.C.O.'s, and men are to be
on exactly the sameo footing as regards
leave.
(4) No officer, N.C.O., or man to have
evening leave more than once in four
days, or week-end leave morq than once
in four weeks.
(5) All travelling on leave off duty will
be paid for by those travelling. Ticket
ofices will be established in camp for
tickets between Liverpool and Sydney,
and the tickets so issued are the only
ones thut will be recognlsed.
(6) Cases of drunkenness and cases of
misbehaviour when on leave are to be
properly punished.
(7) Any officer, warrant officer, or 'N.C.O.
who is absent without leave or is found
intoxicated will be forthwith dismissed,
discharged, or demobolised, as the case
may be.
(8) Any private soldier who, after being
punished for absence without leave or for
drunklenness, is a second time absent
without leave, or found guilty of dlunken
r-ss (as the case may be) will be dis
charged forthwith by the camp com
mandant, unless there are very special
circumstances justifying more lenient
treatment In the particular case.
(9) On discharge such men are to be de
prived of all articles of uniform, and, if
necessary, issued . with a suit of plain
clothos.
Some new war precautions regulations
have been issued. If any person shall
have any intoxicating or spirituous liquor
in'his possesslon, except for purely medl
cal purposes, at any canteen, camp, fort,
or post at which members of the Austra
lian Imperial Forco are being trained or
are stationed on duty, or at which mem
bers of the Citizen Forces called out for
military service are stationdd on duty, he
shall be guilty of an offence against the
Act.
Interned persons are to be subject to
the same rules of discipline as prisoners
of war.
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