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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1928, Page 2

Wo can understand “conscientious objections” to fighting based on religious convictions. What we cannot understand or tolerate is tlie refusal to make adequate preparation for selfdefence, or to assist those on whom the burden of this terrible responsibility must fall. The peop'e who talk so fluently about “social service,” and the necessity for carrying on the special work in which they happen to i o onga ged. may lie invited to reflect upon the important fact that if their country were invaded and conquered by a foreign foe—for example, Bolshevik Russia—the existing social system, with all its duties and obligations, might cease to exist, and they might lie swept away with it. Objectors of this kind have no moral right to shelter themselves to maintain the opportunities for ‘‘social service” which those who refuse to assist in the great work of national defence profess to value so highly, and in our opinion they should not be permitted to do so.— Auckland “Star,”