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They Asked Conscientious Objectors These Questions At Tribunals in England

WHAT WOULD

HAVE

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 him," Richard Walter Ellos explained to the London Tribunal.

Elias is a pin-table mecliamle living

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 that his father, an Austrian, ld remarried after a divorce, and Force,

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 DS.O. with two bars

and on two occasions. He was wounded nino timer,

"Are you likely to come neross

usked.

led.

"There is a possibility," he answer-

The tribunal decided that there was no consetentious objection, and Elias", name was removed from the register. Would You Let Your Mother Die ?

JOHN RODERICK DAVIES, a form worker of Aberdare, Glum- 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 n. a party of Germans landed in Cardiff, marched to Aberdare, and told you that unless you gave them everything they usted 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?"

"Definitely so,"

Davies added: "Why should I kill Anyone whose mother has the same love for him as my mother has for me?"

He was granted exemption on con- dition that he undertook agricultural work.

Would You Kill A Wounded

Bird ?

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.

With his body painted black he awam for two miles from a destroyer to the shore with flares, which he then, it to create n.diversion to enable troop landings to be made at other points. for this exploit he WAR awarded the D. 5. O.

Four Wounds In Two Days

He won the V. C. in November of the following year when at Beau- mont Humel he drove a wedge into the German line and on the following day personally led the charge that Fesulted in the capture of Beaucort. At the time he was 20 and in the two days was wounded four times.

With the French Army. The idea of making tanks do the

The accond bar to his D. S, O. was work of stretcher-bearers would have seemed fantastic in the other war, gained in the closing minutes of the 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 arii enplured more than 100 happened to see the notion realised Germans. in practice,

The tank in question was one of the smallest of the breed. Compared with the original tanks which much surprised those of us who were up by High Wood in the Somme in September, 1916, it is a 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 Kemp Town, Brighton, found a bird

with a broken wing,

He could not leave it to suffer, so (he stamped on its head,

more

Major-General Freyberg was born in London but was educated in New Zealand and is now 49.

The first echelon of the volunteer ing and is awaiting embarkation. A force has completed intensive train- second echelon is to be called up. It

was announced in London.

than 3ft high. It is amazing to see PRIZE COURTS how the little monsters get across rough country and how they climb.

uele principal business is to con- OF WORLD WAR

"It haunted me for a week," Arnold vey immunition to the front line; told the South-Eastern Tibunal, and and if they bring back wounded on LONDON. (UP).—The archives of added that now he would willingly the return journey, these must be the Prize Court, which passes on the face a firing squad rather than take patients in a state to put up with a disposition of contraband llte.

fle was exempted on enndition that he remained in his present. job

FOURTH WEEK of baker and confectioner. FORTNIGHTLY

Would You Lot A Burglar -Steal ?

certain amount of Jolting.

Quicker Than Stretcher

man with

cargoes

and vessels solzed under the British blockade, are filled with accounts of many thrilling.captures and bizarre incidents of the past.

couri.

As They See It Abroad

'FRANCE)

A HITLER

ENGLAND

The Waiting Game

[New York "Daily Mirror"

HERE'S A SHIP

THE NAZIS

CANNOT SINK

By W. M. DUCKWORTH

SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. I WENT on board II.M.S.

well, let's call it 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 Nations and saw the ship's company march off to the tune of "A Life on the Ocean Wave."

But H.M.S. Pinafore is not really ship utfoat. The Germans won't

be able to say that they sark it, because it is unsinkable.

Df the Navy's

SHOT

genius for adaptability. OFFICER

In peace-time it was-a-holiday camp. Now it is a training establish- ment for new entries into the Navy.

"For Your Delight"

My particular chenillette came in from a company aid post to the but- During the last war, thousands of

It is a land ship, bearing talion medical offeer with a man who tons of grain, coffee, ores, phosphate honoured name of an old cruiser, had been wounded by a grenade. FORTNIGHTLY IF Victor Chamberlain found a Without going into details, it may be rocks, nitrate of soda, hides, petroleum. It is an example

vegetable oils, salt, copper, alumin- burglar-in-his- house inTM Ashburton-| said that the ground- -was-less favour-lum, lurd, basan, meat, fruits, cocon, would not able to stretcher-bearing than Hamp, rubber, fertilizer, tobacco, machinery. EARLY FEBRUARY rod, st Croydon, he

resist.

stead Heath would be.

brick, tools, chemicals and conl were "I would reason with him," Cham-. berlain told the London Tribunal.

I do not suggest that conveyance seized.

Some unique cargot's also feu "If he still insisted I would let him by tmk is ever likely to be the order the authority of the

dinary means of bringing in the

Here come the raw material from the One, was consignment of alligators,

Elon and Harrow, the village butcher He based his objection to military wounded, and the service on the interpretation of the Henade wound was probably glad frogs and snakes for the Berlin Zoc.

were condemned as

boy and the grocer's lad, the bank clerk and the taxi-driver-all to be Christian faith, and declared that it enough to be transferred from the They WEEK was wrong to kill an enemy.

traller of the chenillette into the property and exhibited as prisoners shaped into sallors. He was registered for agricultural motor ambulance which was waiting of war.

a day march in at Two hundred There was a shipment of human for him at the baitalion aid post.

one door wearing their civvies, and But he had been brought along in hair from China destined for wigs about a quarter of the time which a for German women, and a long argu-

200 a day march out at another door squad of stretcher-bearers would ment whether sausage skins were

in their new uniforms and pays to the food, have taken.

When the countel produced an

various naval barracks for advanced training. exhibit of the slimy cusings for saus- pges

the court observed: "Take them away, certainly not."

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that it was for the chambermaid, £1 NOTE, with a letter saying 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- volver In his right land, when a fellow officer looked through a bullet hole in the bedroom door.

In Black-Out-

The old sea dogs, the grey-haired Reservists who have been called up, meet them at the gates and Instil into them the need for discipline and physical training.

Pinafore Lite abcard H.M.S. pleasanter than it was in H.M.S. Crystal Palace during the last war.

On the beating lake, where thei holiday campers used to paddle about found. in festooned craft, the lads are learn- ing how to manage a whaler, while the instructor bawls at them from the

One name may be mentioned, that for the enemy. Nearly 40 lawyers of the picturesque old Almatlan town were engaged in arguing these cases. 1 lakeside. jof Phalsbourg, which is exclusively!

Role Of Neutrals aceupied by the medical corps.

A letter addressed to a friend was

On the previous night he had been knocked down by a motor-ear in the black-out, but said he was not hurt.

His friends say that he had seemed depressed for some days.

The tennis courts have been turned into recreation grounds where net- It is a town of hospitals, Gigantic The importance of trade carried on ball is played, and a vast dance-hall red crosses on the roots and in the by Scandinavian countries, the Unit-

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