"Personal Freedom" in England

Maoriland Worker, Volume 6, Issue 243, 13 October 1915, Page 3

"Personal Freedom" in England

■— * A mo, FRED SELLAR SENTENCED. The- 'sentence of one month's im- * pri'£o_._6nt: without the. cpt-ion of ■ a .■fine ha-s .'been passed on Mr; Fred H. -'Seliar,'''lth'e secretary cf the • luterna.--j'tional ""Peace-Makers' League, oh the <charge of hindering, recruiting by print- '' ing "and circulating a leaflet .which j dealt with tho '.National Krister. This ■'leiflet tta'te&'mmpiy that Compulsory I'ltegistration is but the preliminary to 'C^'oscriptidh' in ' general, , and invites ', tho?? 'who object '.to. compulsory regisi'tration- to.give their names and adj 'dresses' co ; " that ''meetings of protest Isa-T- more readily be called. On July I-tO'"the "Nation" published an articleY 'hj~ E. W. Mas'singham, the Radical Liournali-t, which'was a teat—ng analyfsis -and exposure 'of the Registration '. Act. . .Commenting .on .this in" a letter ito the "Labour Leader," Rev. W. J. iPiggott,'' of the 'Blackfriars [Mission, I Stamford Street,.; S.; E., cays: yChristi iaus and ."democrats who publish and [circulate' literature -advising beforehand [the refusal io ' sign the National Ift-I'gi-tration'/forms, W .PROVIDING THEY ARE. NOT TOO PROMINENT, liable to suniruiry arrest, trial,' and sentence under : . tho provisions of the Defence of the', Realm' Act. Iv face of the case, of Mr.'Sellar. Mr."Lloyd .Gco,r_;e> recent statements' about 'personal' free'ddm become farcical.'' Mr. ' SoliarKisore'Of Uio family of that who left N.Z?'abqut two year.; ago. .