CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13935, 18 July 1917, Page 3

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.

ATTACKED BY ANGRY CROWD AT BROCKENHURST. NEW ZEALANDERS IMPLICATED. (Por Cnblo—Pross Association—Copyright,) (Australian,and N.Z. Cablo Association. . Received July. 17, 9,40 p.m., . . . LONDON, July 10. In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr Phillip Sno\vden, Sir George Cave 1 (Secretary of Sta'c for Home Affairs), said a. crowd, ~ including somo New Zealanders, attacked a party of conscientious objectors while .going to ,work fit Brockenliurst o]v,tk ])th July, They pelted the objectors 1 with turf and threw two of them into the river, . No one was. seriously hurt, , Property, mostly, belonging to', the GoverHiiieitt, wa's--also Hung .into-.the. river,. The military police,present .were not strpng enough. Officers,.' intervened , and quietened the crowd, .The objectors decline to. prosocurg their assailants, •