... religious convictions and conscientious objections to compulsory military training, yet, in most cases, the term, “conscientious objector” is a euphemism for selfishness. Do not for one moment doubt the success or the popularity of compulsory military ...

... that to grant any relief to the conscientious objector_ (whom distinguishes from the religious objector!) would wreck the Act. Now, he is reconsidering the possibility of “alternative service” for the conscientious objector. From all of which circumstances ...

... larger number are being fined ; that the resistance is widespread everywhere; that there is no relief to the merely conscientious objector. The relief is to the religious objector only. It was intended for the Society of Friends alone; and was to remove ...

... compensating vaccination officers for the loss they had sustained in fees as result of the increase in the number of conscientious objectors to vaccination, one of the Tibshelf representatives, Mr. Hesketh, said in the course of a few years there would be ...

... remained free from smallpox. Out of 494 births only 104 had been vaccinated. and the exemptions granted to so-callod conscientious objectors numbered 336. He had repeatedly pointed out how serious was the menace arising from this state of things should small ...

... recognised as one of the best goalkeepers in the Birmingham Combination. Wednesday Were most anxious to give him a trial. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS AT DONCASTER The mi-final between Wire Works and Kt. George’s, of the Doncaster Junior League, which was down for ...

... number of prosecutions. It should also be noticed that drill-shirkers,” they are called, though many of them are conscientious objectors, are subjected to much more severe punishments than were ewer inflicted ...

... Act are fundamental. A few months ago the Minister for Defence said that any exemption of those who claimed to be conscientious objectors would, defeat the purpose of the Act.” His trouble now is that he cannot persuade them to accept the concession which ...

... Derbyshire should make peace with the Labour Party or that they shouio all claim exemption from the political levy as conscientious objectors accordance with the previsions of the new Act. The chief objection to the latter course is that would cut off supplies ...

... the- great decline Had taken place the’ niiniber of succckiful in recent years, and pointed out that thd number of conscientious objectors had sprung from 52,000 in 1906 to 276,000 last year. Under the administration of Mr. Burns nearly one-third of coming ...

... Yorkshire quarterly meeting of the Society of Friends, at their Sheffield assembly, expressed “deep symnathy” with the conscientious objectors (nearly 1,000 boys and youths) who had been sentenced to detention in gaols, military fortresses and barracks in ...