COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.
OBJECTED TO AS BEING A VIOLATION OF LIBERTY. STUDENTS BREAK UP A MEETING. tFER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! CHRISTCHURCH, May 26, A meeting held in the Salvation Army Barracks to-night, called by the Baptist Lay Preacher’s Association to protest against the scheme 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 wa.s 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 proposed that the meeting approves of military training, but in the uproar it was impossible 'to tell whether one or the other was carried 1 .
The students' afterwards held an openair meeting outside, at which patriotic speeches were delivered.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3229, 27 May 1911, Page 7
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142COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3229, 27 May 1911, Page 7
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