CONSIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.
GENERAL RUSSELL ADVOCATES iipmsE. (PlB PKR9B ASSOCIATION.) WEI.I.INOTON. July 9. There was n mild sensation at a gathering of llie eomr/iercial traveller*, when General Fluw-cll, in the ■course of an address on national defence, digressed for a momerit, and advocated the release of conscientious objectors from all further imprisonment. '"You may say it is asking &n. impossible, tliiug", but my own po-sonaj opinion is that at tha end of war conscientious objectors slioiild bo released. • Several voices: "No! No!" General Russell: "I quite understand that vou dissociate yourself from my views, and I only told vou what I think about it myself. I promised to make my. opinion public, and 1 have done so."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1861, 10 July 1920, Page 6
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