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Where Exemption Can Be Purchased

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Became: “Conchy” After Liloyd George’s Speech

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

PEACE PARLIAMENTARY GCANDIDATE ARRESTED

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

They Didn't Know Where She Was

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Traffic in False Army Rejections

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

POWERFUL NEW STORY THE DUKE AND THE Collier’s Daughter OPENING NEXT CHAPTERS WEEK'’'S WEEKLY NEWS. THE ..

... smallpox has broken out wholesale? It is very cruel of you to apply for this. You are very foolish. Applicant—l am a conscientious objector, Major Allenby—You are an idiot. That is all I can say. The application was granted. FELLING COLLIERY DISPUTE. On ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1902
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BEST PLACE TO CATCH PREMIER

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LEGAL ADVYICE

... solicitor. Mrs M‘L.—You will be best advised if you call at the Sheriff-Clerk’s office, Glasgow. J. M‘'L., Uphall.—A conscientious objector need not but m.y within six months of August, 1907, if child horn before, or within six months of birth, make declaration ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1908
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 439 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

METEQ®R 111

... included the smashing of a jewefier’s shop window at Leeds. i sentence of six months’ hard labour was passed. : A Conscientious ‘Objector at Gateshead.— A well-dressed man made an application to the Gateshead Bench,on Monday with a view to having his child ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1902
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 460 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

A group of British prisoners of war in Germany. The jerseys worn by the men were knitted by themselves B :

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 911 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

False Statements Land Him in Trouble,

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 904 | Page: 4 | Tags: none