STRIKE AGAINST CONSCRIPTION.
jhlleman Albert J. Wyeth, of the Ist Battalion N.Z.R.8.. a local boy, who was wounded during the Somme battle, writing from a hospital in England, hits out: against the strike against conscription. He says: “As for a .--t rike in New Zealand against eonseription, well, 1 wish 1 was home just to put in a few words to the cold footed cowards. Do they think that we chaps like being wounded and facing dealh every hour just lo keep them in .-al'ety and comfort ’ Do they think of liie lives tom to keep them where they are.’ Do they expeet us to sacrifice everything we have and get nothing in return. Do they expect that we are going lo face all we have done again and not demand them to do their duty by ns and by our dead comrades ? Certainly not! Long live conscription to force them to do those things which their awful cowardice bids them evade." Private Wyeth adds that what he has written is the opinion of 90 per cent, of the boys in the old division, and being wounded over here.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1706, 1 May 1917, Page 3
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189STRIKE AGAINST CONSCRIPTION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1706, 1 May 1917, Page 3
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