... Where Exemption Can Be Purchased. If you happen to be a’tradesman who can afford to pay, or a conscientious objector with a little to gpare, you can'buy’exeémption from military service from Ormskirk Tribunal. At least, that is the only conclusion I can ...

... charged with failing to report for military service, they all declared them. selves to be conscientious objectors, and one of them said he became a conscientious objector in 1906, when Mr Lloyd George spoke against war. The three men were Edward Martin, Albert ...

... absentee under the Military Service Act. i A y The defendant, addressing the Rawtenstall Magistrates, said he was a conscientious objector and ought to have been exempted. He had opposed the war from the start, as he thought it had been foisted on the workers ...

... Colliery object to go down the mine with conscientious objectors. - At a meeting of the Hebburn District Council one of the miners’ representatives having stated that he was proud to be a_ conscientious objector, apparently irritated the miners at Hebburn ...

... came to light that a traffic in false certificates was going on at Hamilton. Bishop’s Opinion of Conscientious Objectors. “] am not a conscientious objector,” eaid the Bishop of London when speaking in London. “‘I believe,” he added ‘ that the whole idea ...

... and Alf. The word ‘‘emigration,” said the Attorney-General, was a euphemism for making good the escape of fugitive conscientious objectors. Anot}:er letter was read to sho: “the real character of thess women an their attitude to this country.” It was from ...

... PROTECTED BY OTHER MEN’S §_I_\_(_3BIFIGE. Plain Speaking to Conscience Men. A stix;ging attack on conscientious objectors| was made by Mr J. A. Seddon, formerly Labour candidate for the Newton-le-Willows| Division, during a speech at Rotherham. It/ will ...

... fellow, 0 you see his hiding did him good, inasmuch as it tamed him. But now to my experiences down the pit. I wag a ‘‘ conscientious objector ”’ as far as this work was concerned, and for the third time I got my ‘check,” which ig the only German civil way ...

... grounds, to do duties, because, said the accused in the letter, ‘tortures are inflicted. A sack was put on the head of a conscientious objector, and he was thrown into the water to see whether he would be prepared to struggle for “his existence. Of course he ...

... now under their consideration an important point with regard to the imprisonment of conscientious objectors. The Government recognise that some conscientious objectors are genuine, and others are not. It has been practically decided by the authorities ...

... would nat go down the pit again with conscientious objectors. ’ ** The Executive Council,” said Mr Adair, ‘““are asking the miners in the county to condemu the Hebburn Lodge for its treatment of conscientious objectors, and in reply to that we aleo propose ...

... trial for alleged acts of ciuelty against two conscientious objectors, was heard at Birkenhead. At the former tria] the non.-coms. were found not guilty and in the present case the conscientious objectors, George Beardsworth and Charles Dufies, two well-known ...