JOHNSONVILLE RIFLES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 489, 23 April 1909, Page 2

JOHNSONVILLE RIFLES.

: MORE DISSENSION. : -?..'. .■;:. AN ECHO OF. THE MANOEUVRES. Since their inception as si. volunteer corpj\ the Johnsonvillo Kiflcs have not been nn alto. gethcr happy family, as the public is nodoubi aware. Some time ago, the company .was al< most'disintegrated over a controversy concerning the seniority of one of its subaltern officers. .Now," fresh trouble has arisen over an incident which happened at the Volunteer camp at Oringi during Easter. The facts are: stated ,to be as- follow:— . ' On tho ovening of Easter Sunday nn orderly reported to Lieutenant Mirrieloes, Officer Commanding tho company' at the camp,' that n . member of tlie corps had been taken violently ill. ■ As.that officer had just retired to bed, a subaltern' officer of another companv, who' hap. pened to be visiting his tent, offered, to investigate the matter, and ascertained that the ailment was sufficiently serious'to warrant tht man's removal to tho field, hospital., A stretcher was procured, and tho 'sick man'i comrades in the toil): were requested to furnish a bearer detachment for nis conveyanc« to the hospital. They refused, and the sufferer, who was subsequently discovered to have beci taken with severe cramps in the stomach, ha( ultimately to bo; taken to tlib hospital by i detachment from another company. The sequol happened at the-first compare; parade of the corps after it* return to Johnson ; ville, when the t men W,ho had occupied'l\o. tent at Oringi wero severely eonsuvcii b< Lieutenant Mirrieloss for their conduct in re fusing to turn out. for the relief of a sick comrade. The non-commissioned officer (a corporal) who had been in charge of No. 'i tent thereupon stepped forward from tho ranks, and asked to bo allqwod-to mako a 'statement. ■' Thic was refused.,; lie then, it'is'slated, ripped his corpoval'ir stripes off, and threw down hij rifle. He was arrested, and placed' undei arms, so tho report goes, and'-,the othors who were under criticism have since declared thoii intention of resigning from tho corps. It u probable that, more will'bo heard of the in. cident. r