CONSIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
.—e COURT-MARTIAL PROCEEDINGS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, March 7. Three Second Division Class A reeervists were charged before'a courtmartial to-day with failing to submit themselves to medical examination. They were Edward Mortimer Murnane,>French polisher; John Roberts, pressor; and Andrew KennawayHen. derson, newspaper artist, all of Christchurch. Each of the men, who are conscientious objectors, pleaded guilty and offered no evidence. Roberts, in a statement, said that as a humanitarian he believed that human life was sacred, and that killing *a B murder, notwithstanding that it was by order of the State, and under the blessing of the Church. He wished to point out to the Government that it wan futile to keep on sending conscientious objectors to kaol because for every one imprisoned three more would Bering up. In the.case of Kennaway Henderson evidence was given that he was not an anti-mihtoist in the ordmary sense. His antwmhtanst views we based primarily on an ethical foundation. Sentences will be announced to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 145, 8 March 1918, Page 4
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163CONSIENTIOUS OBJECTORS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 145, 8 March 1918, Page 4
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