... FORCIBLE FEEDING IN PRISON. Death of a Conscientious Objector. A verdict that death due to pneumonia, amelerated by forcible feeding, but that no blame attached to the prieon authorities. was returned at an inquest at Hull yesterday on Wm. Edward Burns ...

... STRIKE AGAINST C.O a. As a protect against the employment of a considerable number ot conscientious objector*. about 1.500 hands at the oil mills of Messrs. John biUy and Sons, Ltd.. Liverpool. dos ned tools yesterday. The firm has issued a statement ...

... hard labour. It was stated that in the course of an address the de, fondant said be would rather go to hell t with a conscientious objector heu go to !heaven with drunken, swearing scoundrels who happened to die for their country in Flanders, and that be ...

... courts. At Peterborough Revision Court yesterday the claim of Frank William Bird, a Corporation official, who is a conscientious objector, was upheld. It was stated that when he appealed to' the Tribunal on conscientious grounds his application was adjourned ...

... Inspector Hawkins held that about 759 men were detained, a large number of whom were absentees. It was stated that a conscientious objector tried to bribe with ZS the police officer who arrested him. He was fined C. Three men were fined 21s. for assaulting ...

... incapable of having acquired a real conscientious objection. If that contention were upheld it is obvious that the conscientious objector clauses in the Military Service _ would be to all intents and purposes repealed, except in respect of the last handfuls ...

... Secretary of State for War, gave a pledge that the practice of imposing successive sentences of imprisonment upon conscientious objectors was to be discontinued, and that the who had served sentences of two yeats' hard labour should be unconditionally ...

... Tribunal that he was engaged in converting his two blouse-factories into guild factories. was granted exemption as a conscientious objector, and referred to the Pelham Committee for national service, with a recommendation that his present business fulfilled ...

... CONSCIENCE MAN'S CLAIM. The conscientious objector. C. H. Norman. aim found guilty at an Exeter court martial yes.erday of refusing to wear un.form lie submitted that he was entitled to trial in a Civil Court. but the 2resident of the court said the situation ...

... Parton, aged 26, of Tewke , bits*/ Lode, Chertev, a law student. Mr. Witham Parton, the father said his son was a conscientious objector, and had been employed on Sir John Brunner's estabe at Chertsey as a forceter under the Home Office scheme. Frank ...

... pries, of which could not yet be fixed. This nine of profiteer, as well as the food boarder, must be dealt with. The conscientious objector was a selfrespecting canon when compared with them. The deserter only tried at worst to shield himself without taking ...

... of the most dramatic interrup. tions I ever heard in the House of Commons. Mr. Harold Smith was as. flouncing the conscientious objector. May I ask the honourable member, sa:d Snowden suddenly—l quote from — whether he is himself ef military age' And ...