HC Deb 23 April 1917 vol 92 c2040
69. Mr. BUTCHER

asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the necessity for limiting travelling on railways and of the fact that the ordinary civilian who is compelled to travel in the course of his business has to pay a 50 per cent. increase of railway fares, and of the fact that many of our soldiers at the front have, owing to military necessity, been unable to get leave for a year or eighteen months or more, he will restrict the present facilities granted to conscientious objectors for getting leave and travelling at the public expense?

Mr. BRACE

The Committee on the Employment of Conscientious Objectors will consider this matter at their meeting to-day.