TERRITORIALS IN CAMP

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 140, 13 June 1912, Page 3

TERRITORIALS IN CAMP

"CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS" AND THEIR BEHAVIOUR. [bi uleghaph — special to the tost.] PALMERSTON N., This Day. There was consider/able interest yesterday in the march through town of the men in the- casual camp at the show grouud. They had only half a week's camp, but they were quite- a different set iv regard to smartness from j the somewhat slcuchy lot who went in. j Some of the men were without uniforms. •Among: these are the men who neglected to turn* up to the parades and who were, therefore net measured for their uniforms. Several of them are the "conscientious objectoro," who are posted to the ambulance instead of to tho combatant parade. But for a few of these conscientious objectors there has beenuio trouble of any kind at camp, -though very full liberty has been given to visit the town .while the men were off duty, la the various camps the most trouble, almost the only trouble, has been from t-lie ambulance men who were posted to that non-combatant corps because of their "conscientious objections" to military service. That was so at Foxton, and it has proved to be so at the camp in the show grounds. At the outset the men were put on their honour by Captain Whyte, who said he> would give them all the liberty he could, but expected that they would not abuse it. The result has been that except in the caso cf these conscientious objectors the conduct of the men, both in town and at the camp, has been exemplary. As at Foxton the only men whose leave has had to be stopped were conscientious objectors. '