CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1916, Page 5

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE OX THE DIFFICULTY. Received March 23, 8.15 p.m. London, March 23. In the House of Commons there was much criticism upon the tribunal's treatment of conscientious objectors. Several speakers declared that conscientious objectors were brow-beaten and insulted. Mr. Lloyd George said it was difficult to discriminate between the real conscientious objectors and those using the definition as a cloak for cowardice. Ho welcomed the suggestion that such objectors should be asked what services they were prepared to offer the country. Nobody could doubt that the country was in great trouble, and nobody could doubt that the whole destiny of the country depended on what happened in the near future. The Government was entitled to ask these men to help the country. THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM. COMMITTEES SET UP. Received March 23, 8.15 p.m. London, March 23. The Board of Trade has appointed a committee to consider the post-war position of British industries. Committees of the iron and steel, engineering, shipping, and shipbuilding trades have already been formed.

A FRENCH VIEW. BRITAIN LEADS. Received March 23, 8.15 p.m. Paris, March 21. Lc Temps say a that the economic conference to discuss financial, industrial, and commercial matters during tlie war, and after the war to organise with a view of meeting German trade, has to attack a task of complicated variety. The methods employed by the Allied countries and the old theories must he abandoned in favor of the Allies' common benefit. Britain appears to have gone farthest hitherto as regards prepaartion. / POST-WAR TRADE. A RESOLUTION FOR THE PARIS CONFERENCE, Received March 23, 10.50 p.m. London, March 2.3. In the House of Commons Mr. Ronald McNeil, on behalf of the Unionists, will table a resolution that the British representatives at the Paris conference be instructed to declare that the British Government is prepared to adopt immediately with the consent of the Dominions' Governments and the Allies, a commercial policy penalising trade with the Central Powers after the war and establishing closer trade relations with the Allies, subject to preferential treatment of the British Empire.

GENERAL CADORNA IX LONDON. London, March 22. General Cadorna received an ovation in London. Lords Kitchener and French \velcomed him. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER INJURED. London, March 22. Milne, an Australian soldier, while travelling to Weymouth fell from a train at Dorchester and crushed liis left foot, which had to be amputated.