1.09

Illustrated London News
29 January 1916

1.20

Daily Mail
27 January 1916

COMPULSION PASSED

The House of Lords passed the Compulsion Bill last night.

This means that within five weeks from today young single men for whom there is no excuse will be in khaki.

1.39

Daily Mail
6 January 1916

Men in khaki, who are proud to be 'doing their bit', cheer the news that the slackers are to be fetched at last.

2.05

The People
2 January 1916

The Announcement that compulsion is to be brought to bear on the unmarried men has come as a relief to the nation.

2.20

Daily Mirror
11 January 1916

2.51

The Women's Dreadnought
5 February 1916

THE SORDIDNESS OF IT

Never will those lads altogether win back the normal thoughts and outlook on life that war will rob them of. Who that has trampled over fallen comrades in the mad haste of the charge, and plunged cruel steel into other living men; who that has seen the battlefield strewn with dead and dying, horribly maimed and torn asunder ... can ever again realise the full sacredness of life ...

3.30

Daily Mail
20 January 1916

The type of candidates there greatly pleased the officials. The accepted men included many managing directors, Stock Exchange men, a partner in a hardware firm, and a famous cricketer (J B Hobbs) previously rejected for varicose veins.

3.52

Daily Mirror
24 January 1916

4.20

Daily Mail
3 January 1916

THE PAPER THAT SECURED 'SINGLE MEN FIRST'.

'Well?'

'... but mother says she'll make me. I can please myself, can't I?'

4.56

Illustrated London News
5 February 1916

Quakers in Khaki: Members of a Society Opposed to Fighting, But Prepared to do Their Duty in the Non-Combatant Services]

5.20

The Friend
21 January 1916

THE HARDEST QUESTION OF ALL

'Then you are willing to see your country defeated?'

That's the question that stops the mouths of many of us when we are trying to explain our position as 'conscientious objectors' ... There is, I believe, hardly one of us who would, or could, say 'Yes'; but, if we say 'No,' we are at once open to the crushing reply, 'Then you are willing to let other men fight and die for you, while you stay quietly and safely at home.'

5.50

Daily Mail
10 January 1916

Sir - What right have 'conscientious objectors' to live in this country whose existence is only maintained by the fighting men of our Army and Navy?

G Moor
3, Silverfields, Harrogate.

6.27

Daily Mail
28 February 1916

CONSCIENCE CLAIMS UNWILLING DAIRYMAN'S ARMY BUSINESS

A retail dairyman and shopkeeper objected at Exeter to military service because war was contrary to the will of God and because his being called up would mean the closing down of his business. He said that if he saw a German violating his wife or sister or butchering his mother he would not think it his duty to interfere.

7.57

Daily Herald
8 January 1916

Compulsion is not necessary. It is not spontaneously demanded by the people. It is an outrage on individual liberty ... Conscientious objectors can be shot or imprisoned, 'slackers' may be drilled and uniformed ... The chief conscriptionist's aim is not to strengthen the Army or win the war; it is to cripple and enslave the working classes at home.

8.25

Daily Herald
30 March 1916

'I never needed a conscience.'