NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 31, 13 March 1914, Page 5

NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL.

The. National Peace Council held SJ|| general .meeting last night, passed a resolution condemning - -t&qNm South A'friean Government for e&te)ji|||| iishirig martial law during the /s£nktigjj9 and extended its sympathy to. ported leaders. The resolution " called attention to the ments of responsible members of ..4t&ylp| South African Government to the that similar action' was not previoasl3§|g| possible, as the ! military of the country under the new compulsory training was iiot advanced. The declaration of law in connection with labour is thus shown to be possible of enfqgCjßjfßM meat when the country has a com P^ e J§|||| military organisation, such as the-nifli||l|| tarists wish to obtain by medns o£ com|||| pulsory military training." '• *:'^^H The League, therefore, >nrged"*tli«§||| trades -unionists o£' New Zealand Australia to' stamp out i'theform of Conscription introduced in toTft»||||| countries under the name of comiyalsolßEM military training, and iu the gui^^flH The council also solution of the previous meeting regard to defaulters under- the Act, stating that the only partially enforcing the Defejß|Em9 Act, and that therefore defaulters "finealll or imprisoned may "be continuouafly' 4 -aapa treated as often as they are "so that the law allows of practicafij§j§j continuous imprisonment from fhe-agipj of fourteen to the age of twenty-fr?|y|B and one month annually thereafter the age of thirty.'' ." '~l|fj The resolution further dissented fromiS General Godley's statement that tkj»l|B prosecutions were the work of the ciyjjlM and not the military authorities, on 'tnjg-jjj ground that the police only when supplied wit"* information* by 'thjpjja Defence authorities. 'vjraH