REFUSAL TO SERVE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25015, 8 September 1942, Page 2

REFUSAL TO SERVE

THREE BROTHERS SENT TO PRISON (P.A.) AUCKLAND. Sept. 7. Three brothers who refused to serve in the military forces appeared for sentence before Mr J. H. Luxford, SM, to-day. They were Reginald Radermacher. Robert Radermacher, and Frederick Radermacher. Mr Hogben appeared for the brothers' mother, who, he said, had asked him to inform the court that her sons had at all times objected to participation in war and had been brought up in that belief. They had previously told the court that they were political objectors, but that was not correct. Some person must have recently influenced them. " The case is unusual," the magistrate said. "The three brothers steadfastly object. They told me that it was on political grounds, and now counsel states that they are conscientious objectors." After reading the police report. Mr Luxford said that Reginald and Robert Radermacher had records, and had been convicted of resisting the police. The report stated that they were not fit subjects for a defaulters' camp. Frederick Radermacher had not been under the notice of the police. "You have made up your minds to resist the law," said Mr Luxford, sentencing the three men to three months' imprisonment.