INDIAN SOLDIERS
. - --<&• REFUSE DUTY. (Übited Press Association—By Electric ..... . Telegraph.—Copyright.) DELHI, June 5. Seventeen non-Coinmissoned , Officers and men of a company of the Second Battalion of the Eighteenth Royal GarliAval Rifles refused duty at PeshaAvar in connection av i ll l the riots there on April 24th. There Avdr e court martialled at Abbottabad yesterday. Evidence was given that : sev'eral of the men said that.they AVere fed up Avith the dut., in . PeshaAvar and- they declined to kill children and old' people in the city. Others had grievances; about the pay and pensions, andhothers about the rations. >
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1930, Page 5
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