A MISCHIEVOUS STATEMENT.
BY. ENEMIES OF CONSCRIPTION. ono of the statements that eEcmios of the Military Service Act have been making is that some of the men conscripted, for military service have committed suicide rather than perform the duties' allotted, to them in the camps. The statement, we are informed, is -without a. shadow of troth. The fact is that since the 'beginning of 1916 there have been in. tho camps six suicides, and iii that period over 30j000 men have passed through tho camps. The percentage cannot be considered a. high one, and in no singlo case is thero any evidence that the Military Service Act caused any one of the unhappy men to take his own life.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 6
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119A MISCHIEVOUS STATEMENT. Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 6
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