"CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 6

"CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS."

a», -.-^v. Most correspondents take a narrow view of the attitude and the . result of the growing tendency of the ! of all nations in refusing to submit to tiT SlSri Vl 6 mil ir < fs y P° wer - These writers dwell upon the suffAing endured by ooro*.-, soldiers, but miss the point that it is -tiM-flr because of this suffering that these objetton luive been inspired to take the stand andin their influence to eradicate all that -»«i—« ty. warfare suffering possible. They take a wife international view and realise that soldien at all nations suffer equally although they hire j had no personal voice in making or stayhto | the sweeping holocaust they have been Dm into. The Great War was a war waged between - <nations that ranked among the most hitlrir 1 civilised and Christianised nations of tile wort! : and yet it proved the most deadly ever fnmrfct ' " The evolution of the scientific world, with it*. ! invention of deadly war weapons H their application, enable? one to foretell the destiar V-" of the races that engage in future coatieU. We read of the development of t*nlr« traveling at a speed of fifteen miles an hour, equipped with apparatus for throwing (l»ni*f and gu and capable of crushing huge wliW, Amplanes will dispute with tanks for prior inipor- - tarice.. Gas horrors will multiply.- Gas hardly used in the last war, yet it proved superior to explosives. It has been possible to sweep out the entire population ' of large cities with gas and electricity. iy next war will probably be labelled a war of - gas and electricity. Not to do and die, bat to learn the reason why, should surely be the motto of the youths and people of all nitim S. AMELIA OATE&