A RELIGIOUS OBJECTOR
NAPIER APPEAL DISMISSED. By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent. Napier, April 24. To-day, at a Napier sitting of tho Appeal Board, Donald Allan. Jones, bank teller, of Hastings, appealed as a. conscientious objector, and, though he did not appear, the appellant forwarded a, lengthy letter which, he said, he looked upon as a protest, not as an appeal: "Tho State has decreet!," he wrote, "that I shall serve in a machine, a so-called engine of liberty, which was a means to this end, the training of our young men to slaughter their fellow human beings." After setting forth his religious objections, and asserting that he was patriotic and loved his country,, appellant wrote that he. would refrain from military -service in any shape, manner or form whatever the consequen'ces might be. "In short, gentlemen," lie sconeluded, "because of my religious convictions I will not fight, neither in person nor by proxy."
The board dismissed the appeal.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3062, 25 April 1917, Page 6
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