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January, 9, 1940.
They Asked Conscientious Objectors These
Questions At Tribunals in England.
WHAT
HAVE
WOULD YOU
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| hirn," Richard Walter Elins explained? to the London Tribunal.
Elias is a pin-table mechanic Itvin:
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. "Courage" to students of St. Andrews University, has Describing himself as British-born, heen chosen to lead the New Zealand Expeditionary had remarried after a divorce, and Force.
ta Southern-strent, King's Cross, N.
be said that his father, an Austrian,
that all his cousins were in Germany, He is Major-General B. C. Freyberg, whose achievements in them if you go out to fight?" he was the last war carned for him the V.C., the D.S.O. with two bars
and on two occasions. He was wounded nine times.
"Are you ilkely to come neross
uskeri.
Jl.
"There is a possiblity," he answer» |
The tribunal drekfed that there was] no conscientious objection, and Ellast name was removed from the_register, j
Would You Let Your
Mother Dic?
JOHN RODERICK DAVIES, O farm worker of Aberdare, Glam- organ, would not fexist if German tried to kill his mother.
TANKS TO
CARRY WOUNDED
That is what he told the SouthTIME Wales Tribunal at Cardiff.
"Supposing" # was suggested to| him, a 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?" "Stand still and let them in." "Would you stand quietly and let them kill your mother?"
"Definitely so."
SAVED IN LESS 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 1015.
Will his body painted black he swam for two mliei from a destroyer to the shore with flares, which he then it to creato a diversion to cable troop landings to be made at other points. for this exploit he Was awarded the D. S. O
Four Wounda In Two Days
He won the V. C. in November of the following year when at Beau- most lamel he drove a wedge into: the German Hine and on the following: day personally Ted the charge that resulted in the capture of Beaucor1, With the French Army. At the time he was 28 and in the two The iden of making tanks do the days was wounded four times. work of stretcher-bearers would have: The second bar to his D.-S. O. was seemed fantastic in the other war.alued in the closing minutes of the But a day or two ago, when on a war when, with ninë men, he rushed visit to a battalion in the line, a village and captured more than 100,
Davies added: "Why should I killuppered to see the noton realised anyone whose mother has the same in practice. love for him is my mather hus for| men
He was granted exemption on con- dition that he undertook agricultural
work.
Would You Kill A Wounded Bird ?
The tank in question was one of the smallest of the breed. Compared With much surprised those of us who were
the original tanks which up by High Wood in the Somme September, 1816, it is Yorkshire terrier by the side of a wolfhound.
The French, call these little tanks
As a boy Albert E. Arnold, of chenillettes. They are not MDIU Kamp Town, Brighton, found a bird with a broken wing.
He could not leave it to suffer, so he stamped on its head,
Germans.
Major-General Freyberg was born
in London but was eluented in New Zealand and is now 40.
The Arst veheln of the volunteer
As They See It Abroad
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The Waiting Game
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HERE'S A SHIP
THE
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By W. M. DUCKWORTH
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND.
well, let's call it
1 WENT on board H.M.S.
ing and is waiting embarkation. A force has completed intensive train-Pinafore as it is war-time. I watched the White Ensign second echelon is to be called up, i hoisted from the stern-that ceremony of hoisting the was announced in Lomlon.
colour which is performed on all ships of the Royal Navy at nine o'clock in the morning all over the world.
than 3ft high It is amazing to see PRIZE COURTS
how the little monsters get across rough country and how they climb.
"It haunted me for a week," Arnoldvey aminunition to the front line: Joll the South-Eastern Tribunal, and fail if they bring back wounded ou added that now he would willingly the retuen journey, these must be face a firing squad rather than take patients in a state to put up with a
certain amount of jolting.
life.
Je
was exempted on condition that he remained in his present job
baker and confectioner.
IF
Would You Let A Burglar
Steal ?
Their principal business is to con- OF WORLD WAR
LONDON (UP) The archives of the Prize Court, which poses on the disposition of contraband cargoes and vessels seized under the British blockade. are filled with accounts of many thrilling captures and bizarre incidents of the post.
stead feath would be,
red.
I heard the chaplain read prayers and the band of the Royal Marines play the National Anthems of the Allied Nations and saw the ship's company march off to the tune of "A Life on the Ocean Wave."
But ILM.S. Pinafore is not really Quicker Than Stretcher
a ship aftont. The Germans 'won't be able to say that they tank 1, My particular chenillette came in
because it is unsinkable. from a company aid post to the bat-: During the last wer, thousands of
11 is a land ship, bearing talion medical offleer with a man who tons of grain, coffee, ores, phosphate honoured name of an oil cruiser. had been wounded by grenade, rock, nitrale of soda, hides, petroleum. It is an example (15 The Navy's Victor Chamberlain found Without going into details, it may be vegetable oils, salt, copper, alumis- genius for adaptability. burglar in his-house-in-Ashburton-rail-that-the ground was les favours tum, lard, -bacon,-mem-Fruits,-goon,
In-peace-time-it-was-a-holiday| EARLY FEBRUARY, Bst Croydon, he would not able to stretcher-bearing than Hamp-rubber, fertilizer, tobacco, machinery, camp. Now it is a training establish-
tools, chemienis and coal wergi ment for new entries into the Navy. "I would-reason with him,” Cham- I do not suggest that conveyance
Some unique cargoes
also tell
"For Your Delight" "If he still insisted I would let him by tank is ever likely to be the or
dinary means of bringing in the under the authority of the court.
Here come the raw material from) wounded, and the man with the One was consignment of alligators, Elon and Harrow, the village butcher He based his objection to military [ swine on the interpretation of the remade wound was probably glad frogs and snakes for the Berlin Zoo.
boy and the grocer's Ind, the bank! Cough to be transferred from the They were condemned Christian faith and declared that ittraller of the chenillette into the property and estbird as prisoners shaped into sailors.
clerk and the taxi-driver-all to be; NEXT WEEK & 4th WEEK wrong to kill on enviny.
He was registered for agricultural or unbulance which was waiting
for him at the battalion all post.
But he had been brought along in about a quarter of the time which a ud of stretcher-bearers would lave Laken.
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There was a shipment of human hair from China destined for wigs for German women, and a long argu- ment whether sausage skins were food. When the counsel produced on exhibit of the slimy casings for saus-
the court observed:
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Strong Medical Service Oxygen has been administered to the Duke of Westminster, 60, reputed The sector of the front I
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the court concerned the shipment of land, who is suffering from conges- certain activity, but here, as clac- tion of the lungs.
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SHOT OFFICER LEAVES
A TIP
LI NOTE, with a letter saying
that it was for the chambermaid, Was found when Captain Reginald Oliver, rattway transport officer, was found shot in a bedroom in the South-Western Hotel, Southampton.
Captain Oliver was seen to be lying
The old son dogs, the Rey-haired Reservists who have been called up, meet them at the rates and instil into dead in the bed, with a service re- them the need for discipline and volver in his right hand, when
fellow of leer looked through a bullet physical training.
4
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A letter addressed to a friend was
Life aboard 11.M.S. Pinafore is hale in the bedroom door. pleacanter than it was in H.MS.!
In Black-Out Crystal Palace during the last war,
On the boating like. where the the casually clearing Denmark. This quantity represented stations of the Royal Army Medical 13 times the normal shipment of holiday campers used to paddle about found. Corps, have been organised on an goods via this channel. The entire in festooned craft, the lads are learn- Immense scale.
cartoes were condemned as desteding how to manage a whaler, while the instructor bawls at them from the likeside..
One nuine may be mentioned, that of the picturesque old Alsatian town of Phalsbourg, which is exclusively cccupied by the medical corps.
for the enemy. Nearly 40 lawyers were engaged in arguing these cases.
1
Role Of Neutrals
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It is a town of hospitals: Gigantie The importance of trade carried on red crosses on the roofs, and in the by Scandinavian countries, the all- courtyards and Incorporated by Royal Charter 185)
squares announce ed States and Latin American re- Paid-up Capital .... .......... £3,000,000 the fact to enemy airmen, and the publies in relationship to the war was Reserva Liability of Proprietors 3,000,000 place is out of bounds to the rest of disclosed by the proceedings of the
3,000,000 the army.
court. The Insk of the court wat The dedication of the town is per made dimeult by various devices feelly well known to the Germans. adopted to hide the fact that cargoes Whether they will respect it in the were destined for Germany. The heat of butilé remains to be seen.
principal means was the setting up of neutral agencies, but in many cases cargoes carried in neutral stipi for neutral parts were condemned,
Throughout the war not a single life was lost ou inerchant vessels subjected to search or detention by the British navy,
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On the previous night he had been knocked down by a motor-car In the black-out, but sild he was not hurt.
His friends say that he had stemed depressed for some days,
The tennis courts have been turned i Into recreation grounds where net- ball is played, and a vast dancehall has been converted into a clothing]
Captain Oliver, who stayed with store.
his sister-in-law at Perivale, Middle-. A 60-year-old physical instructor sex, when he was in London, was the wan giving the men Swedish exer- son of Mr. J. W. L. Oliver, C.B., elses
of Baronsmede, Ealing. He was un- "I remember him as my instructor derstood to be a widower with a at Osborne College," said one of the young daughter. He had been at officers who piloted me round the Southampton for six or seven weeks, ship.
having been called up at the out- break of war.
300 Gallons Of Soup
To-day. he was telling the lads the same old tale. "These exercises," he said as he stretched out his arms and legs like an acrobat, “wili malce you grow, so that you will be able to join the City Pollee after the war."
He was formerly connected with a shipping line.
WHY IT'S CALLED THE
Trainees live in Ititle chalets which ONE-BOTTLE-MEDICINE CABINET
Forty-one prize courts were con- stituted throughout the empire, but the chief court was in London. Some
were once the holiday homes of the very long and Involved judgments campers. A recruit sleeps on were given by Sir Samuel Evans and
spring mattress and has a soft white Lord Merrivale, who presided during pillow and plenty of blanicets, with the war.
Gross proceeds from enrgoes sold amounted to more than $30,000,- 1000, Elghly-one German
vesel were condemned and 73 vessois wer detained until after the war. Vessels sold yielded some $2,000,000,
his own wals hand-basin, and a Led- "light for reading in the block-out.
Mechanized walters run round one)
Nine of the great dining rooms. electric trolleys go from fable to table, each containing. 120 hot din-
cers, and each man makes a grob for hi incal as it passed,
To-day's menu, which was carved SHE_NEW FRENCH REMEDY | by wille-aproned chefs and Wrens, HERAPION NIP consisted of soup steak and kidney THERAPION N2 ple with vegetables and pruŋes and
custard. THERAPION NË:3.
TREAM OUKROʻS PEUStep the lives
In one kitchen there was a row of i vats almost brimming over with hot lentil soup-300, gallons of it; and it took two men to lift each mammoth: steak and kidney ple
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powerfiil unit.
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