COMPULSORY SERVICE.
j A DISORDERLY MEETING. 5 (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Last Niglit. A meeting held in the Salvation Army Barracks to-night, called by the Baptist Lay Preachers' Association to protest against the system of compulsory service, broke up. in disorder, the meeting being invaded by a party *of college students, who made such a disturbance as to prevent any business being done. A motion was proposed expressing the opinion "That compulsory mill-/ tiiry training was a. violation of liberty and conscience, and in direct opposition to humanitarian advancement and progress." An amendment was proposed, ' 'That the meeting approves' of mili- ] tory training," "but in the uproar it 1 . was impossible to tell whether one j or the other was carried. TJie students afterwards held an i open air meeting outside, in Which j patriotic speeches were delivered.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10249, 27 May 1911, Page 5
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138COMPULSORY SERVICE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10249, 27 May 1911, Page 5
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