RECENT CAMP CONDUCT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 4

RECENT CAMP CONDUCT.

WAS THE PICTURE OVERDRAWN? • (By Telecraph.-SDCcial CorrcsDondcnU Christchurch, January 16. Local military circles view with considerable indignation the allegations recently made regarding the conduct of the camp held at Palmcrston North, and emphatic opinions are expressed that the picture has been much overdrawn, for tho purpose, primarily,, of discrediting the compulsory service system. One officer said that it seemed to him that tho charges were made simply to bolster up the opposition to. the compulsory system. He. himself had attended many camps, and had seen and heard much that he would rather not have seen or heard. No man, however, was compelled to swerve from the path of strict rectitude on account of the example.set by other men iu camp. Bad examples were to be found right through life, and. no man could bo so protected as never, to como. within sight or sound . of those examples. "You cannot give a man strength of character by withdrawing all temptations from him s " declared this officer, "and, as far as I know, few havebeen corrupted on account of what happened during camp lite."