A PACIFIST PUNISHED
London, August 23. John P. Fletcher, a pacifist, formerly in Australia and New Zealand, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for refusing to handle a rifle at Whitley Bay.—The "Times." [Fletcher in May last was fined J3IHO by a London Court for issuing a leaflet entitled "Repeal tho Act," which was considered likely to prejudice recruiting and discipline ill His Majesty's forces.]
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3173, 25 August 1917, Page 7
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69A PACIFIST PUNISHED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3173, 25 August 1917, Page 7
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