THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR.
[To sue Enrron or THE " SpEcTrrom."1 Sni„—As a Quaker who has taken up arms in defence of liberty, I write to thank you for the very fair attitude of your paper on this question. I believe that every combatant soldier desires that the genuine conscientious objector should receive the exemption to which he is entitled, and surely this is a question which should be dealt with, not by " home service " men, nor by men past military age, but by those who are enduring indescribable hard- ships out here for the cause which we believe to be right. Stephen Hobhouse, who has consistently held the view that all war is unlawful for a Christian, ought to be released from prison, and the clergy of military age of every denomination should be con- scripted for military service unless they can show that their religious belief forbids them serving in the Army. I need hardly say that no soldier would countenance the ungenerous treatment of the conscientious objector advocated by your correspondent " H." A Britain that treated as outlaws men of the type of many of the Quaker conscientious objectors is not the Britain for which we gladly shed our blood out here.—I am. Sir, de., W. GREEN.
B.E.F., France.
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