steven For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ From The Tribunal August 17th 1916 By Bertrand Russell (Some extracts) Mr. Clifford Allen, the chairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship, was handed to the military authorities on Friday, August 11. The Appeal Tribunal has awarded him civil alternative work of national importance, but he felt, rightly or wrongly, that the … Read more
For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ Observing that it was a travesty of the English language to say that a man had not joined the Army was deemed to have done so, Mr. Hay Halkett, a Greenwich magistrate, allowed a member of N.C.F. to have a remand so as to have his case re-heard. *The many … Read more
From The Tribunal, July 27th 1916 For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ What is rightly called in the press “an unusual situation” arose at the York City Police Court on July 18, when Mr. Robert Kay, the presiding magistrate, refused to hand over to the Military Authorities Herbert Coupland, a conscientious objector, charged with being an … Read more
For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ Another debate on the position of the conscientious objector took place on the Vote of Supply to the Local Government Board. Mr. Morrell wanted to know what steps the president of the Local Government Board was taking to see that the administration by the Tribunals of the second Military Service … Read more
For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ VOTE OF CONDEMNATION CARRIED In the House of Lords on July 4, Earl Russell called attention to the operation of the Military Service Act with regard to Conscientious Objectors who had not been found by the Tribunals to be Conscientious Objectors and were sent into the Army. He said that most of those … Read more
For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ TUESDAY, JUNE 27.MR. PETO AND CLIFFORD ALLEN; AN ANXIOUS INQUIRY Mr. Peto asked the Home Secretary how many of the leaders of the Anti-Conscription movement who have been sentenced by Court-Martial to terms of imprisonment have since been released; whether these men of military age have restarted their efforts to break down the Military Service Act immediately on … Read more
For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ Among Conscientious Objectors who have endured hardships with a cheerful courage are some who have found their trouble most difficult to bear, not so much because of their physical pain, but because their sufferings have been caused by the ill-will and the maliciousness of those in whose charge they have … Read more
For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ COMMUTED TO TEN YEARS PENAL SERVITUDE MR TENNANT STILL HELPLESS HAS – “NO INFORMATION” In spite of repeated assurances as to the impossibility of the death sentence being inflicted on conscientious objectors in France, we received on Thursday, June 22, news that on the previous Thursday, at Bologne, four conscientious objectors, who had been court-martialled for refusing to obey … Read more
For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ From The Tribunal, July 27th 1916 Dr. F.B. Meyer and Mr. Hubert Peel have just returned from a visit to some the companies of the Non-Combatant Corps now in France, the journey having been undertaken as the result of a suggestion made just before his departure from Russia by Lord … Read more
For further updates go to https://nfpb.org.uk/archive/tribunal/ Case Dismissed Summonses against three members of the Nottingham Branch of the N.C.F., taken under the by-laws, were dismissed at the Nottingham Summons Court on May 24th, on a technical point raised for the defence. The defendants were H.W. Lowe, of 174 Birkin Avenue; Richard Papworth, of 105, Egypt Road; … Read more