MEETING BROKEN UP.
'VARSITY STUDENTS' "NIGHT
OUT."
[BY TELEGRAPH.-— ASSOCIATION.!
, . Christchurch, Friday. A meeting held in the Salvation Army Barracks to-night, called by the Baptist Lay Preachers' Association to protest against tho system of compulsory military service, broke up in disorder, the meeting being invaded by a party of college students, who made such a disturbance as to prevent any business being done. A motion was proposed expressing the opinion that compulsory military training was a violation of liberty and conscience, and in direct opposition to humanitarian advancement and progress. An amendment was then proposed to the effect that the meeting approved of military training, but in the uproar it was impossible to tell whether it had been carried.
The students • afterwards held an open air meeting outside, at which patriotic speeches were delivered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14691, 27 May 1911, Page 7
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134MEETING BROKEN UP. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14691, 27 May 1911, Page 7
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