The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-27
Young Kenoshan Saw But
Did Not Participate in
Stirring Events of Ca
madam Mutiny.
HIS QUARTERS DESTROYED
Mob Attacks en- Masse But Local Sap
per Was Unhurt-T1is Major Was
Killed-May BE Home BY
July, 1928.

The report that James >Barden was in
the mutiny Of Canadian soldiers at
Rhyl, Wales, has been confirmed. Let
tiers from the young patriot reveal the
fact that ho saw some Of the fun, but
not with the mutineers. The officers
headquarters, to which he was attached,
were demolished by the mob but the
Kenoshan escaped without losing either
his life or his high standing with
the English officers.
This much and more is told by young
Bardcn in letter received today by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bar
den of Selma avenue The communica-
ton, written from Kimmel Park, Wales,
on March 7th, reads in part as follows:
~ have not been able to send any
mail from camp for four days, as the
post Office has been closed on account
Of the riot in camp the first part
Of this week.
"There are twenty camps here and
each has one, If not two, canteens and
Y M. @. A. huts, anG in these camps
there are about forty-fve thousand
Canadians, who think rehabilitation is
not progressing as fast as it should;
so some of them started in to liven
it up.
''They had not been paid regularly;
the food was rotten, and to add to this,
they had been told that there would
be no sailings from this camp during
March.
About $3.50 Monday night the 3rd,
the crowd started for Tin Town. a
little shopping center on the main road.
Lights were turned on all over the
camp as the mob grew wilder every
minute.
''They utterly demoralized 'Tin
Town, even tearing down the buildings.
From there they took each camp in
order, raidlng the canteens, Y. M. G.
AS and officers quarters. They stole
everything in the canteens and cracked
the safes, and what they could not
carry away, they destroyed. No re-
sistance was made until the next morn
ing, when a detachment of cavalry was
sent in from Bramshot The detach-
ment fled after about ten minutes in a
pitched battle, and | guess it is still
running south.
''The major in command was killed
together with five privates; there are
twenty-five wounded in the hospital.
The rioters started toward the nearby
town of Rhyl, but never turn ed back by
maehin1 guns. The quartermaster stores
arc shot to pieces and the men have
helped themselves to two OF three
new uniforms.
General Turner and his staff came
the next day, by airplane from Londo-,
and spoke to every camp. Promises are
made for sailing to begin again Mon
day, the 10th and each man is to be
paid twice month. The longer service
men go home first, so the camp is
quiet again.
/ am due for a six days furlough in
London, but can t make it now, as the
major refuses to sign any passes for a
week General Turner promised our
company that we should be On our
way home by July. He may mean in
the year 1923, as he did not specify.
eff the Imperial authorities would
take this camp over, we should make
home in the double, but the Canadians
are slow-movers. AT present am
clerking in Orderly No. |, as the of
fers' headquarters where I formerly
worked is all smashed to pieces.v