CO129-582-13 Compulsory Service- provision for conscientious objectors 2-8-1939 - 14-8-1939 — Page 5

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are (1) a key posts group, of persons

whose services are primarily required

in the work in which they are normally

engaged, (2) a general group, for

essential services. Under a further

provision of the Ordinance the Governor-

in-Council may make regulations for the

organization of discipline and the

general government of the key posts

group and of the general group for

essential services and for the imposing

of penalties for the breach of any such

regulations.

3. His Grace will appreciate

the particular circumstances of Hong

Kong in the event of an emergency in

the Far East and that those circumstances

must differ essentially from those

to this country. It is

of

true that under the Military Training

Act, 1939 a conscientious objector may

have