The sun., 1919-07-01
UNIT FROM RUSSIA
CALLS MUTINY FAKE
Misunderstood Order Magni-
fled Into Revolt, 389th
Men Say.
FOOD CAUSED GRUMBLEs
Transports Troy and Yale
Loaded With Troops Near
Crash at Dock.

That mutiny among the doughboys OF
the 339th Infantry. away up in the polar
bear ATTITUDES Of Russia, where the cold
froze the boards of the natives, the
doughboys keeping clean shaver to pre-
vent iciular accumulations, was fake"
according to officers and men Of
the command that arrived yester-
day from Brest. by the transport
Steuben. The rumor started after
a very young Polish soldier of the
33sth refused to load a truck when or
dered to do so by his sergeant. The
youngster. who could not understand
English, misinterpreted the order. An
Interpreter was called and after a little
explaining the soldier did as ordered.
That was the only instance In the history
of the regiment while II was In northern
Russia that even one OF Its members mo-
mentarily refused to obey orders.
It was admitted by officers and men
there was q lot of growing. which the
doughboy, and even some OF his supe-
riors, regard as the immortal unabridged
privilege OF every American, in uniform
or out.
Major Nichols, who has been dec
GRATED with the Croix de Guerre and the
d. s. c., says all his men are Just as
good and some a dern sight better than
he is, and that they are second to none
as soldiers.
The boys growled over clippings set
ting forth the speeches Of certain public
men in America who wanted to know
why the American soldiers were in Rus
sia. Then they asked for enlightenment
from their officers and Col. Stewart ex-
planned that they were at Archangel
Chats where they were, and not in ST.
IBERIA, as sometimes reported) to guard
huge stores Of war material and supplies
sold by the Allies to the old Russian
Government; to prevent the Germans
coming through Finland and south Rus
STA and establishing submarine bases on
the White Sea to assist the Russians In
reestablishing the eastern front and re-
oganizing their own army: to assist the
Czecho- Slovaks, and finally. since they
were in Russia, to protect themselves.
These explanations satisfied the growl-
ers. who, Capt H. G.. Winslow Of Com
pany l said. certainly had a right to
kick at the climate with the thermome-
ter marking So below zero and poor food.
Eve Hammond of San Francisco. who
arrived by the French finer Lorraine
with fourteen other American Red Cross
women workers. has q corsage full OF
decorations. including the Legion OF
Honor, the Croix de Guerre with a gold
palm and the Ribbon of the Battle OF
the Marine. She went to France with
the first Harvard unit and was for a
time an assistant to DIR. Carrel. She
says her dog Red deserves some OF her
decorations for his instructive ability to
detect the approach of a gas attack and
that thus he had saved the lives of hun
dreds of patients at base hospitals.
The transport Troy. formerly the Min
nesota. one of the biggest Of American
freighters before the war. with 1000
troops aboard. came pretty close to be-
ing rammed by the steamship Yale.
bound for Newport News with 1000
troops, OF Hoboken yesterday afternoon.
The Troy was docking and the Yale GO
ing ahead. She backed at full speed and
stopped within fifteen feet of the Troy.
1t WIS said there was a misunderstanding
OF signals.
Col. G. C. Heiner. who arrived yes
terday by the transport Infanta Isabella
with 1870 officers and men. said the port
of Bordeaux had been abandoned by the
United States Army as an embarkation
point for returning soldiers.