COMPULSORY INOCULATING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16808, 18 March 1915, Page 8

COMPULSORY INOCULATING.

TO THE EDITOB.

Sir, —My attention has been called to a letter expressing surprise that refusal to be inoculated is put down t>y the military authorities or Now Zealand as equal to disobeying orders. And w> it is. What surprises me is that a man who went out in the fifth contingent should come to such an un< British conclusion. When men join an expeditionary force they know they must obey orders, which have been well thought out in tho interests of th« health and well-being of the men. Any of the men who refuse, and act practioilly as deserters, should be stripped of their uniform and shipped out of the country.

As a member of the fifth contingent I am in a position to contradict the statement that two of the first men to die at Bamboo Creek had been inoculated. lam certain that not a member of the contingent- tois inoculated until we arrived at " Tuii," in Rho-r desia; and, further, there was no New Zealand contingent stationed at Bamboo Creek. It was only Yeomanry, and not a member of the fifth died at Bamboo Creek. —I ira, etc.,

ONE OF THE FIFTH CONTINGENT