The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-26
CONSCIENCE" WAVE SWEEPS ENGLAND
FOLLOWING CONSUMPTION DECREE
"Ns Wrong to Kill Any One, Even Those Who Murder Your Parents" Say Some
Directors, Hoping to Avoid Service at the Front-Many Amusing Excuses
Made by Those Brought Before the Military Tribunals

a school cadet corps who appealed for
exemption on conscientious grounds At
Peterborough said tina he had taken
an oath that he would not undertake
combataut service.
Answering the chairman. he said that
he would rather see the boys he was
training in the cadet corps die before
they we're called on to fight. II was
"A fact that he applied for an officers
commission in "A ome OF folly and
under pressure.
Replying to the town clerk, the APP
plicant said that lie made the oath pri-
vately, bu, considered ii none the less
binding. f the tribunal wished he would
repeat 1t before a commissioner of
Oa;hs.
4 certificate OF exemption from ON
blatant service was granted
III | killed a man I should he mis-
cradle FOR the rest OF my life.,' was the
plea of IA printer h app,ied TO the
Maidstone tribunal for exemption.
surprising on leaving his building
YOU saw "a man with a pistol who WAS
prepared 10 Kill you would YOU make
any attempt to defend yourself
81 cannot say because ! have not been
IN that position"
Surprising the Germans were here,
would YOU stand aside aud see them
mutilate or outrage your mother or sis
ter You know what they have done
IN Rclgiun""
~ I were in that position | don't
know what | hould do, II would de-
pend upon what passion was aroused.
II | We're governed by the animal pas
sion 7 should rctalia,c. II were gov.
rrncd by the higher passion | should
protest. but | should not kill the man.
| should appeal to his better nature"
When The tribunal exempted him
from combatant service he said he WAS
Iu!te willing To do non-combatant work
The eXtraordinary prevalence OF
consideration DIRECTORS" has given rise
to Mo feeling IN many quarters that
some subtle auti-militarlst organization
is at the back of the whole matter. and
the pain Express now reveals that the
L";or,ous No-ConscIip tion Fellowship ~
sc''ctiv training conscientious ol-
i%",tuls' to make the military service
tribunals believe the applicants are sin
cc,c ami is even holding rohcarrals Tor
ticir benefit,
ADVERTISEMENTS, II says, have lately
been inserted N numerous newspapers
which can only bc regarded as an IN
c.tCn"ht t. offences against III" military
service act.
Accepting the prorcred "advicc and
~ : nv wa ' vi t'fNAE wy ~
nst commits 10 mcmurr a set Of
phrases whi'h he must repeat Ike a
iarrOi whcn he comes before the
trIhUutl. The Conmoucs, Of thea"
phrases is that in which \" IL taught
20 assert tina; he wouli SOONER see his
mother attacked than murder "A Ger
man Then the conscientious ohjevtor
joils. a course OF classes for instruction
IN wha, , * to which his conscience
i .-,. ~. l.. .lA,, s', az, tAuAG -
risking his llfc hy not stopping IN LOW
don u assisting in getting vi strikes
I'm muni;ion areas during the war He 's
warned against the welcomes of hc'D-
= l'g I" remove "a German floating mine.
He is taught tho deep iopraNtty of he
. com.,r: a hospital Orderly.
These CLASSES for thu spread "f scdi-
thr have been organized uudc' u group
: system All ",r" London Then. 10
rus.l against u hrcnkdoWn in So much
carefully arranged hyp""risy, the ON
sciruti"is nhicrt"r II next invited t" II
rehearsal lie receives "A letter some
what =. tilowS:
Dear ,'nmradc Please meet on
MnndnN At . n. a, Spence, Han, -
Dartmouth Nark-lill, y, " ,tulc sta
! ton. Tufnrll I'ark,, Cor n morh tri.
huual, ADMISSION "nlS 10y this notice
Yours, ", nurr.nt.'
TIc diiIlrultN OF lhcSc mock TRIBUNALS
is to produce cNid"nc" OF religious con-
: Nictiun deep AUD sincere enough to Justi-
Is exemption where until he passing
~ tn. military service act nothing In
the way of religious i"ii'c s"Hms ever
to hiv, existed before.
IN appeal fnr subscriptions 10y the
treasurer of II" No-'onsrription f"l-
'oNship appears IN a peace paper which
has already once been rdidcl by the
l.oudon po'irc, I'm the sam" issu" some
verses are quoted as having been suu-
by supp"r,crs in Glasgow. ON" ~ the
verses ,u,,s thus
To hcll with tho Kaiser,
TO hcll With III" kNg
10 he'll with i~ri Derby,
Aud also the i,inS.
Great strcsa has always been laid