New-York tribune., 1907-01-18
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
frrom The Tribune Bureaul

washington, January II.
PECULIAR COURT MARTIAL CASE.-Nothing
is known officially In Washington respecting the In
cdent described having occurred at Columbus
Barracks Ohio, where enlisted man, Sergeant
James Lynch. of the 10th Company of instruction.
stationed at that post, has been brought BEFORE q
military court. It Is said in the advces from Co
lunbus Barracks that the soldier confronting the
trial came TO this extremity by his refusal to obey
the order OF his commanding officer Lieutenant
Colonel Edwin +. Glenn, 5th Infantry, 10 httehu
the services conducted by a Roman Catholic priest
in the schoolroon the hall. The order
prescribed that on given dates all the Catholic
soldiers of each company at the post should as
sembe for service In charge of the senior non
commissioned officer, who of that religion
Lynch appears to have turned back at the door or
the hail. after conducting his men 10 the place OF
service. These all the facts which are forth
coming at this time. and conservative army Off
GERS in the War Department are unwilling to COM
NIT themselves TO public expression OF opinion
the incident OF course. it is very well known
that soldiers ordered to attend religious
services of any sort. They are merely requested
10 do so, and perhaps in some cases a com
mandins officer feels that he is justified Ia
insisting on the attendance of a soldier chapel.
altnough he takes grave risks when he exercises
such authority. If Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Is
refusal 70 attend service he has overstepped his
authority army officers here say, but they imagine
that additional information will put an entirely
Ginerent construction on the incidenG ~ Is Ihpae @
fused 10 attend the service in a way which brought
MIN into direct conflict with the military authori-
that Colonel Glenn is described having given the
IL Is supposed For nstance that the man made
some remarks 10 his associates and in some other
way brought the military authority into contempt
II such action threatened to interfere with dis,
men were under instruction, the offence couId NOT not
be overlooked merely because court martial pro
is hat theIe is somethfnf vet to- be told in the
story from CoIumbis Barracks If there were
nothing TO he told. and Colonel Glenn was
he REUSED to attend the religious service, it
on han he MAS wbe c@ed on m to defend himself
from alleged atrocities to natives in the Philip,
tiIenns action would be a hard one to determine
dhureh i to Fsmain IN there through the service II is
conceivable that he thought the enlisted men OF
s0mPahes bg ss senior IN ooe
soned s1@ 6e oar s w per qs pop &
sdering the fact that there was religious service
ing a soldier has no right TO question the orders
ss he ss % and be ana p ssoR asoh 9
discipline
ORDERS IssUED-The following orders have
been issued:
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Second f ssasa hR6 a6wTS 81 L SMITH o 4sd Com
Jas sSiis 'ff { sat M haiis @ 1ns ;a S 10.
Iasutsnant Colonel JOHN NJ BANIsrER. deputy surgeon
general. 70 Omaha; Temporary duty as acting chief
Captain WILSON T DAVIDSON. assistant surgeon. from
Pr~sido Of Monterey to Fort D. a Russell
NAVY.
Lieutenant z. BASS. to bureau OF navigation, Navy
Department
Ensign W = GILES detached the Hancock 10 the Doh
phin-
Surgeon +. e MCCULLOUGH detached the Ahstro.s; to
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Washington.
Passed Assistant PsymAster Fl A. WISE Jr. detached
| the Naval Academy 70 navy yard. Boston.
Pssed Assistant Psymassr z s. sTALNARER- TO Naval
Academy
Cable from Rear Admiral W. n Brownson COM
mander IN chief. Asetic feet. Manila, January II:
MidshpmAn y @. BLAsDEL4 detached Baltimore; to
Miashprnan o oBERLlN e.t.ched the BsrryI to .hs
Baltimore
Lieutenant I. HIuEMAN. detached tho Pennsylvania
Surgeon J. C THoAPsoN dstaohsd tho C1noianatI 20
naval station. Olongapc
Passed Assistant Surgeon A r PECK. detached tho
Assistant Surgeon y SELLER, detached the Moh!cani
Assistant surgeon f srooPs detached naval station
olonespoI 70 tho Concord
MOVEMENTS OF wARsHIPs-The following
Navy Department;
January Ie-Ths Leonidas juan
SAILED
January 1e-The Wasp. Norfolk Beaufort "
c.; the Saturn. from Masdalsnk for Mare Island
the Missouri. the Indiana and the whippls. from
Guantanamo for Kingston