The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-04-17
U. S. TROOPS IN
RUSSIA MUTINY
WSs DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS AT
WASHINGTON WORRIED OVER
ACTION OF TROOPS NOT
TO OBEY ORDERS.
WAR OFFICIALS SEEK NEWS
Ringleader Placed in Confinement;
Company Refuses to Move Until
He Was Released. British
Sending More Troops.

Washington.-War department OIL
Gals in Washington are endeavoring
10 learn the extent of the mutiny Off
cially reported to them from the Amer
lean Expeditionary Force in North
Russia.
Judging merely by the information
at hand, officials are inclined to be-
lieve that severe punishment will not
be melted out to the ringleaders of the
company that refused at first to move
toward the front and finally consented
only when appealed to by Colonel
Stewart, commanding the American
forces, and even then refused to pro
coed to the lighting line. Some Off
Gals even go so far as to say they do
not blame the soldiers much for the
position they took.
II also is reported that the spirit Of
mutiny has been prevalent in the
ranks of the British and French
troops with whom the Americans have
been cooperating on the Archangol
front.
Fortythree American soldiers. OIL
cially reported as missing and possibly
prisoners may be exchanged following
the conference between Allied anu
bolshevist exchange-of-priso com
missioners.
Bolsheviki forces are reported from
London as having concentrated on the
far Eastern front in numbers sufficient
to menace the port of Vladivostok.
defended by American, Japanese, Brit
fish, CZecho-Slovak and Siberian troops.
Washington.-The war department
ing Associated Press advices frCm
Archangel that what amounted to a
mutiny occurred among the American
troops there on March &c. A com.
pany of infantry, the message stated,
refused to entrain for the front until
personally urged to do so by Colonel
George E. Stewart. commanding the
American contingent. Open threats
were made of general mutiny unless
definite statement from Washington
insuring early withdrawal was forth
coming.
The text of the paraphrase of the
code message dated March 81. follows,
the department having eliminated on'y
the identification of the company and
certain military information not bear
ing on the incident.
Yesterday morning, March 80.
company of infantry having received
orders to the railroad front, was or
dered out of barracks for the purpose
of packing sleds for the trip across
the river to the railroad station.
Men Refuse To obey.
THE on-commissioned officer who
was in charge of the packing soon re-
ported to the officers that the men re-
fused to obey. At this, some of the
officers took charge and all except one
man began reluctantly to pack, after a
considerable delay. The soldier who
continued to refuse was placed in con.
finement Colonel Stewart, having
been sent for arrived, had the men
assembled to talk with them
ION the condition that the prisoner
above mentioned was released the
men agreed to go. This was done and
the company then proceeded to the
railway and entrained there for the
front. That they would not go to the
front line positions was openly stated
by the men, however. and they would
only go to Obozerskaya. They also
stated that general mutiny would soon
come if there was not some definite
statement forthcoming from Wash.
ington with regard to the removal Of
American troops from Russia at the
earliest possible date.
Comment is Withheld.