TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-04-10
Mutiny Of $4,000 Recruits In Sidney
Everybody in Great Britain
Tries TO Escape Service.

The New York Times OF March
26th contained a correspondence
from Sidney, Australia, dealing With
a mutiny OF soldiers, which was re.
ported IN a very short cable dispatch
some time ago. The Times now re.
ports: "The strike or mutiny began
al breakfast time at Casula on the
morning Of Feb. IL, when aboui
5000 troops refused duty and de-
manded the revocation Of a new
training program, issued that morn
ing, which calico for 40H hours Oh
drill a week instead Of 30. The
increase was due to a recent exam
ination of the training system in
the Commonwealth by Inspector
General James w. McCay. When It
was explained to the soldiers by
their officers that the order came
from headquarters in Melbourne, and
could not be treated in a cavalier
fashion, the entire 5000 marched out
of the camp toward the nearby
Liverpool camp, which is the chief
training post in Australia. There the
strikers induced about 10000 men to
Join them, making a total OF about
$4,000 opponents Of the new order
Thercupon, led by a few irrespons.
ible p~rivates, most OF lrhoIn were
half drunk, the men wrecked q
saloon, got possession OF the drink
ables in it, and engaged in revelry
This was followed by scenes OF de.
struction and intoaication at another
salooL. The evening hours were
marked by many acts OF lawlessness.
such as smashing plate glass win
dows, stoning the German Club.
long since closed, and attacking the
office of an afternoon newspaper 70
demand an apology because the
paper displayed posters calling the
soldiers rioters. Finally late in the
evening at the Central Railway Sta
ton, near which there had been CON
siderable tumult, some OF the
strikers stoned and shot at the
soldier guards. The guards were
ordered to FIRE, and did so witt fatal
effect, in one instance. By midnight
the disorder had been checked after
many arrests had been made by the
police
The Sun and The Brooklyn Eagle
also had long letters from England
describing the efforts made by pa
triotic Britisliers to escape service.
"Sinee the military act became law,
thus making soldiers Of all single
men In England, Scotland and Wales
unless they had a Conscientious OBJ
lection to warlike service, a wave OF
conscience has swept across the
country" says The Sun. These men
who have been suddenly snitten
with a conscience are receiving little
sympathy from the military service
tribunals to which they have TO APP
ply for exemptions from the fighting
service. A clerk ad Edmonton had
a conscience so tender that it viii
not even allow him to attend a
wounded soldier SO that the ma
might be mended to kill another
individual II God permitted the
war the Edmonton objeetor de.
clared in a reply 10 a question, he
did so for a wise reason, but God
has not told me to take part in il.
If it is His will that ! should be as.
saulted, then II would be no more
than He allowed His own Son to be
assaulted and eTen killed
An appeal for subscriptions by the
treasurer Of the Ao-Conscriptten
Fellowship appears in a peace paper
which has already once been raided
by tie London police. In the same
issue some yer&s are quoted as l1ay.
ing been sung BY supporters in Glas-
gov, One OF the verses runs thus.
TO hell with the Kaiser,
To hell with the King,
To hell with Lord Derby,
And also the Ring.
A retail dairyman and shopkeepef
| objected at Exeter because war was
contrary to the will Of God as
| shown by the teachings of Jesus
| Christ, and because bis being called
up would mean the closing down OF
| his business"
According to the two papers men,
toned, the number Of men trying
to evade military service are counted
by the thousands.
A young actress, the niece of one
Of our readers. has written from
Toronto, Canada, to her mother
Now | will tell you about the
excitement we had here the other
night. They have here an American
liegion OF I,4o0 Americans who enlist
in the English army for the money
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