THE VICTORIAN CONTINGENT SCANDAL.
GENERAL BUATSON" BECAIiLED. ; THE CO2JVICTION; QUASBEDi (Received October 28th, 12.51 a.nv) LONDON, October 27. , In response to a petition to the King, signed by Alfred W. Kearney and a score of other Australians now at Clapham, the War Office has quashed the Court-martial I proceedings and ordered tbe immediate i release of the three members of the Fifth' Victorian Mounted "Infantry who were sentenced to death, and whose sentences were afterwards commuted to a term of ten years' penal servitude for mutinous conduct. The three troopers had resented tbe epithet "whit* livered cars,"" used by Brigadier-General Beateon on the occasion of the reverse sustained by ; the Victorians. T&fc- WUHamsrast on June 12th.' General Beateon, who, according to the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." 'bt October Tib, used some gfaongly condemnatory language, was subsequently xecaUed. ■
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11107, 28 October 1901, Page 5
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