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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 6

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CHRISTIAN PACIFIST SPEAKER.

ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS STREET

MEETING.

(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “If the leaders of the movement had been interned for the duration of the war when it began, much _ trouble mi’ht have been prevented, said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, in imposing sentence of three months’ imprisonment with hard labour upon David William Silvester, a clerk, aged 28, for obstructing the police, whose evidence was that he was a member of the • Christian Pacifist Society. Sergeant Lines said that on Friday evening Silvester began to address a meeting of about 20 people in Manners Street. He was asked to desist and when he refused was arrested. Silvester refused to plead either guilty or not guilty. “So long as the war continues,” he said,’“and the men of this country are being trained in war and the ways of war, and are being sent overseas to slaughter and be slaughtered, we will take a stand against it. So far ' from silencing us, prison will only emphasise our protest against it and the Christian Gospel which we advocate.”