MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1919, Page 7

MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS.

COUNCIL OF CHURCHES' ATTITUDE.

Christehurch, July 29. At the annual meeting of the Christemirch Council of Churches last night the subject of the proposed four months' military training camp 3 was again discussed.

The chairman (the Rev. J. J. North) Said the attitude the council had taken up- with regard to the matter was an exceedingly moderate one, and there had been no hysteria at all on the subject. The proposals to increase military prepartitions were untimely, and therefore to be reprobated. The Dominion, in a recent .leader, had taken . seriatim exactly the position the council had taken, without exception. The article the taking of young men into camp because of the moral danger to them, and it. hunted Sir James Allen from his "nest" of increased physical efficiency, remarking that this desirable end could only be better obtained through the agency of the Senior Cadets and public schools. The Dominion also supported the attitude taken }>y the council towards the -League of Nations. It admitted that force might have to be used in the future, but not such force ai necessitated the overwhelming anna* hienta of the past. At a recent debate at Victoria College the students, by GO to l.had pronounced in favor of disarmament. Labor's, view towards the matter was similar, and that of the farming community very.much the game. "The fact is we are standing before a Defence Minister who is military mad," said Mr. North, "and not long ago he said to me that there was so much lawlessness in the country that the only thing which could save the countrv from going to damnation was the drill sergeant."