NATIONAL SERVICE
ALLEGED SUfOSDBS IN CAMPAX KMPiJATIC DKXIAL. V,'KLLL\(rT(.L\, .March ITOne <.f the statements, thai enemies of the Military Service Art have been making is that some of the men conscripted for military service have committed suicide rather than perform the duties allotted to llieni in the campsThe statement is without a shadow cf truth. The fact is that .since the beginning of 1910 there have been in the camps six suicides, and in thatperiod "vet 1 thirty thousand men have passed through the camps. The percentage cannot be considered a high one, and in no single case is there aiiv evidence that the Military Service Act caused any, one of the tinhappv men to take has own life.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1917, Page 2
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119NATIONAL SERVICE Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1917, Page 2
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