A DEFENCE STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10551, 6 February 1912, Page 5

A DEFENCE STRIKE

ANTI-MILITARISTS AT WORK.

ATTEMPTED .-IXiOENDIABISM:

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHIIISTCeURiOri, Last Night. The authorities at the Christehurch District Military Headquarters office in Montreal Street were considerably tmnoyed . thjis morning to find that the fences .surrounding .the office and the King Edward .barracks .-bad, been placarded with copies of a printed .jrsaaifostflr, w|J!f»g «H «»tl sundry to ojapose- a*M3criJsrtion, and with a numiber. cf small Square "stickers" bearing such mottcs ; <as':,"Don't be a

conscript—be a Main P'. 1 ' 1 "Men—not ' pimips!" and "The Military Strike is Now On!" The stickers bore no imprint, and were evidently made with a rubber stamp, or very amateurish printing 'press, but the more elaborate manifesto ,in addition to bearing . the imprint of a local printers' firm, bore the signature of nine persons. In addition to these demonstrations tof disapproval of the. compulsory clauses, of the Defence Act, a mild attempt.at incendiarism was made at. . (the Ba,r.rack's, last xiight. Shortly after fen'• o'clock .the Fire Brigade was called out, "and the outbreak wm-R speedily checked. An examination - mflde feliis morning by a reporter showed that a small fire had been started in the alley-way between tho street and the fence of the barracks and one of the old wooden orderly room buildings. The materials used in building the fire were-pieces of decayed sacking and brown paper, evidently gathered from t!he" grounds about the barracks. The fire had been so quickly quelled that it had barely scorched the paint. at the botom of the weatherboards.