CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.
GENERAL RUSSELL URGES THEIR RELEASE.
{PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, July 9. There was a mild sensation •at a gathering of the Commercial Travellers' Association to-day when General Sir Andrew Russell, in tho course of his address, on national defence, digressed for a moment, and .advocated the release of conscientious objectors from all further imprisonment. "You may say that this is asking an impossible thing, but my own personal opinion," he said, "is that at the end of the war entious objectors should be released." Several voices: No, no. General Russell r I quite understand that you dissociate yourself from my views, and I only told you what I think about it myself v I promised to make my opinion public. I have done so.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16883, 10 July 1920, Page 8
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