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January, 9, 1940.
Asked Conscientious Objectors These Questions At Tribunals in England
WHAT WOULD
HAVE
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REPLIED?
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS, facing local tribunals at Home, were asked "test" questions by their examiners.
Here are the problems that were raised and the replies that were given:——
Would You Fight Your Relatives?
"My father might be in the Ger- man Army, and I might have to fight him," Richard Walter Elias explained to the London Tribunal.
Elias in pin-tablo mechanie Ilving
V. C. Hero of Last War to
Lead New Zealanders
A HERO of the Great War, one of whose exploits was referred to by Sir James Barrie in his address on
in Southern-street, King's Cross, N. "Courage" to students of St. Andrews University, has Describing himself as British-born, been chosen to lead the New Zealand Expeditionary he said thaï his father, an Austrian, had remarried after a divorce, and Force.
that all his cousins were in Germany. He is Major-General B. C. Freyberg, whose achievernents in "Are you likely to come across the last war earned for him the V.C., the D.S.0, with two bars
asked.
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"There is a possiblllly." lie answer-
ed.
The tributhal decided that there was no conselentious objection, and Ellas' name was removed from the register. Would You Let Your Mother Die ?
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JOHN RODERICK DAVIES, farm-worker of Aberdare, Glam- organ, would not resist if Germans; tried to kill his mother.
TANKS TO
CARRY WOUNDED
That is what he told the South TIME SAVED IN LESS Wales Tribunal at Cardiff.
"Supposing it was suggested to him. party of Germans landed in Cardiff, marched to Aberdare, and told you that unless you gave them everything they asked for they would kill not only you but your mother as well. What would you do?" "Stund still and let them in." "Would you stand quietly and let them kill your mother? 21
"Deânitely so."
Dayles added: "Why should I kil anyone whose mother has the same love for him as my mother has for: me?"
SERIOUS CASES
By RICHARD CAPELL "Telegraph" War Correspondent
Major-General Freyberg. royal approval to whose appointment was announced recently, was the hero of a Gallipoli incident in 1915.
With his body painted black he swam for two miles from a destroyer to the shore with fares, which he then it to create a diversion to enable troop landings to be made at other points.
was for this exploit he awarded the D. S. O.
Four Wounds In Two Days
He won the V, C, in November
of the following year when at Beau- mont Hamel he drove a wedge into the German line and on the following day personally led the charge that resulted in the capture of Beaucort. At the time he was 26 and in the two With the French Army.
wounded four times. The idea of making tanka do the days was
The second bor to his D. S. O. WIS work of streicher-bearers would have seemed fantastic in the other war gained in the closing minutes of Wie But a day or two ago, when on a war when, with nine men, he rushed visit to a battalion in the line, a village and captured more than 100 happened to see the notion realised in practice.
Germans.
Major-Genern! Freyberg was born in London but was editated in New Zealand and is now 49.
The first echelon of the volunteer
The tank in question was one of dition that he underlook agricultural with there those of us who were force has completed Intensive train-
He was granted exemption on con- the smallest of the breed. Compared
much surprised up by High Wood in the Somme inng and is awalling embarkation. A September, 1016, it is a Yorkshire and echelon is to be eailed up,
was announced in London.
work.
Would You Kill A Wounded Bird ?
terrier by the side of a wolfhound.
The French call these little tanks They are not more
AS a boy Albert E. Arnold, of chenilleltes.
Kemp Town, Brighton, found a bird than 3f high. It is amazing to see PRIZE COURTS
with a broken wing.
He could not leave it to suffer, so he stamped on its head.
WORLD WAR
As They See It Abroad
FRANCE
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The Waiting Came
[New York."Daily Mirror"
HERE'S A
THE NAZIS
SHIP
CANNOT SINK.
By W. M. DUCKWORTH
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND:
well, let's call it I WENT on board H.M.S. Pinafore as it is war-time. I watched the White Ensign hoisted from the stern-that ceremony of hoisting the colour which is performed on all ships of the Royal Navy at nine o'clock in the morning all over the world.
I heard the chaplain read prayers and the band of the Royal Marines play the National Anthems of the Allied
LONDON (UP)-The archives of
Nations and saw the ship's company march off to the the Prize Court, which passes on the tune of "A Life on the Ocean Wave." disposition
how the tie monsters get across · rough country and how they climb.
Their principal business la to con- OF "It haunted me for a week," Arnold vey ammunition to the front line; told the South-Eastern Tribunal, and and if they bring back wounded on: added that now he would willingly the return journey, these must be face a firing squad rather than take patients in a state to put up with
certain amount of jalting.
life.
He was exempted on condition that he remained in his present job FOURTH WEEK of halter and confectioner.
FORTNIGHTLY FORTNIGHTLY
Would You Let A Burglar Steal ?
"I would reason with him," Cham- berlain told the London Tribunal.
BOMBAY via SINGAPORE, THIS WEEK & 4th WEEK take my goods."! ind Way Ports
CALCUTTA via SINCA- PORE and Way Ports
cargoes
of contraband and vessels seized under the British But H.MS. Pinafore is no really blockade, are filled with recounts of
a ship ufloat. The Germans won't many thrilling captures and bizarre
be able to say that they sank it, because it is unsinkable. incidents of the past.
It is a land ship, bearing
of the
Navy's
eanp Now it is a training establish-
Here come the raw material from Eton and Harrow, the village butcher toy and the grocer's lad, the bankį clerk and the taxi-driver-all to be
shaped into sailors.
Quicker Than Stretcher My particular chenillette came in
During the last war, thousands of from a company aid post to the bat-i talon medical officer with a man who lons of grain, coffee, ores, phosphate honoured name of it old cruiser. had been wounded by a grenade, rock, nitrate of soda, hides, petroleum. It is an example
genius for adaptability. IF Victor Chamberlain found a Without going into details, it may be vegetable oils, sait, copper, alumin
In peace-time it was a holiday burglar-in-his-house-in-Ashburton said it the ground was less favour-um, lard, bacon, meat, fruits, cocoa, tools, chemicals and coal were brick. EARLY FEBRUARY, East Croydon, he would not able to stretcher-bearing than Hamp rubber fertilizer, tobacco, machinery,
ment for new entries into the Navy. stead Heath would be.
seized. I do not suggest that conveyance
Some unique cargoes also fell
"For Your Delight" t he still instated I would let him by tank is ever likely to be the or-
of bringing in the under the authority of the court. dinary means
the One
was consignment of alligators, He based his objection to military wounded, and the man with
was probably glad frogs and snakes for the Berlin Zoo, grenade wound
were condemned as enemy service on the interpretation of the enough to be transferred from the They Christian faith, and declared that it
Irailer of the chenillette into the property and exhibited as prisoners NEXT WEEK & 4th WEEK was wrong to kill an enemy.
wolting of war. motor ambulance which was
There was a shipment of human He was registered for agricultural for him at the battalion aid post.
from China destined for wigs work.
But he had been brought along in bair about a quarter of the time which a for German women, and a long argu- squad of stretcher-bearers would ment whether sausage skins were FAMOUS PEER ILL
food.
When the counsel produced an have taken.
exhibit of the slimy casings for saus- London, Jan. 8.
Strong Medical Service ages the court observed: Oxygen has been administered to
"Take them away, certainly not." the Duke of Westminster, 00, reputed The sector of the front I
of a Some of the difficult cases before to be one of the richest men in Eng-visiting has been the scene land, who is suffering from conges- certain activity, but here, as else the court concerned the shipment of
where, if casualties had been multi-goods for Germany through Den
Some 73,000,000 pounds of plica
by 200, the medical service mark. He became aldenly ill after his would still have been ready, hat foodstuffs, rubber and hides, and lard return from the Riviera, last Thurs the French call evacuation hospitals, were consigued from New York to day-United Press.
corresponding to the casualty clearing Denmark. This quantity represented stations of the Royal Army Medical 13 times the normal shipment of The entire Corps, have been organised on an goods via this channel.
cargoes were condemned as destined Immelise scule.
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One name may be mentioned, that for the enemy. Nearly 40 lawyers of the picturesque old Alsation town were engaged in arguing these cases.
Role Of Neutrals of Phaisbourg, which is exclusively recupled by the medical corps.
Two hundred a day march in at one door wearing their elvvies, and 200 a day march out at another door in their new uniforms and pass to the various naval barracts for advanced training.
The old sea dogs, the grey-halred Reservists who have been entled up,f meet them at the gates and instil into them the need for discipline and physical training.
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Life abcord H.M.S. Pinafore pleasanter than it was in H.M.S. Crystal Palace during the last war.
SHOT
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AE NOTE, with a letter saying
that it was for the chambermaid, was found when Captain Reginald Oliver, a rallway transport, officer,. was found shot in a bedroom in the South-Western Hotel, Southampton.
Captain Oliver was seen to be lying. dead in the bed, with a service re- bullet volver in his right hand, when a fellow officer looked through a
ole in the bedroom door.
In Black-Out
A letter addressed to a friend was
On the boating lake, where the holiday campers used to paddle about found, in festooned craft, the lads are learn- Ing haw to manage, a whaler, while the instructor bawls at them from the lakeside.
The tennis courts have been turned into recreation grounds where met- ball is played, and a vast dance-hall has been converted into a clothing store.
A 60-year-old physical instructor: was giving the men Swedish exer- cists.
I remember him as my instructor at Osborne College," sald one of the officers who piloted me round the ship.
On the previous night he had been knocked down by a motor-car in the black-out, but said he was not hurt.
His friends say that he had seemed depressed for some days.
Captain Olivor, who stayed with his sister-in-law at Perivale, Middle- sex, when he was in London, was the son of Mr. J. W. L. Oliver, CB, of Baconsmede, Ealing. He was un
widower, with a derstood to be a
He had been at young daughter. Southampton for six or seven weeks, having been called up at the out- break of war,
He was formerly connected with a shipping line,
THE CHARTERED BANK OF
It is a town of hospitals, Gigantle The importance of trade carried on INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.
red crosses on the roofs und in the by Scandinavian countries, the Unit- courtyards and squares announce ed States and Latin American re- Incorporated by Royal Charter 1953 Paid-up Capital £3,000,000 be fact to enemy almen, and the publics in relationship to the war was Reserve Liability of Proprietors 3,000.00 place is out of bounds to the rest of disclosed by the proceedings of the court. The task of the court. was Festiva Fund ................................................. £3,000,000 the army.
The dedication of the town is per-made difficult by various devices fectly well known to the Germans adopted to hide the fact that enrgoes Whether they will respect it in the were destined for Germany. The principal, means was the setting up hert of battle remains to be seen.
300 Gallons Of Soup of neutral agencles, but In many cases cargoes carried in neutral ships for neutral ports were condemned.
To-day he was telling the lads the Throughout the war not a single same old tale. These exercises," he life was lost on merchant vessels said as he stretched out his arms and subjected to search or detention by legs like an acrobat, "will make you the British navy.
grow, so that you will be able to join Forty-one prize tourts were con- the City Police after the wat."
Trainees live in little chalets which ONE-BOTTLE-MEDICINE-CABINET stituted throughout the empire, but It has been decided to set up an the chief, court was in London. Some organisation which will be avaliable very long and involved judgments campers. to inform relatives of officers of were given by Sir Samuel Evans and spring mattress and has a soft white "matters of importance"specially Lord Merrivale, who presided during pillow and plenty of blankets, with
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