MILITARY SHIRKERS.
.SHOULD SERVE THEIR SENTENCES.
Attention is given*.in the annual
report of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association to the question of conscientious objectors and military defaulters. “During the year,” says the report, “this subject has been freely discussed at many a ILS.A. meet-
ing, as the Government clearly stated early last year that six months would be remitted from sentences imposed on all military defaulters — conscientious objectors included — and that Cabinet had decided that there would be no more prosecutions
of these defaulters. These two declarations, later on backed by Major-General Russell in a speech, caused many associations to express their true feelings regarding the •conchies.’ The tenor of all
these resolutions can he summed up in that of Palmerston North, viz., That no conscientious objectors bo released till his sentence is fully rerved.’ ”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2288, 11 June 1921, Page 1
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136MILITARY SHIRKERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2288, 11 June 1921, Page 1
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