CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
WHAT RETURNED SOLDIERS THINK. Questions affecting the punishment of consecutions objcctors were considered at the meeting of tlio Dominion executive of the N.Z.R.S.A. on Saturday.
A letter was received from general headquarters stating ;Piat 16 men were still undergoing imprisonment, and that there were 2000 men for whose arrests warrants had been issued.
The meeting carried the 'following resolution: "That this executive of Che N.Z.R.S.A. recogn:fees that in the case of genuine conscientious obiectors imprisonment is unnecessary, but affirms the principle that such persons have no claim to civil rights for the period provided by the Statute: on the other hand, this executive is firmly of opinion that all militnry defaulters who are not genuine conscientious_ objcctbrH should be proceeded against (if not already tried) and that they should serve their full term and lose their civil rights for the period specified." '
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 288, 30 August 1920, Page 4
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144CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 288, 30 August 1920, Page 4
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