DISAFFECTION
MUTINY IN INDIA CONNAUGHT RANGERS INFLUENT CED BY SINN REINERS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SIMLA, July 11. Details of -the mutiny of the Connaught Bangers at Jullundur prove that the action was duo to incitement from Iceland. When the demonstration began, large Sinn Fein flags were hoisted at the barrack?, and the men wore Sinn, Fein rosettes and other emblems. It is specially significant, that the vast majority of two hundred men who came out in the last drafts fretn England refused duty, and intimated ■that they would not allow themselves to be disarmed by Indian troops, but obeyed an order to place their arm: and ammunition under guard. Within the past few days, some of the arrested men have shown regret for their mutinous conduct. The ringleaders of the movement are to be tried.
The disaffection has not spread to any other Irish regiment in India,
An unfortunate incident occurred on the North-Western railway, near Peshawar. British military police attempted to eject some Indians who were travelling without tickets, and forty Indians attacked the police, and seriously injured a British, officer who intervened. Indian troops fired on the mob, killing one and wounding another. The incident caused great excitement in Peshawar, and all the shops were closed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10640, 13 July 1920, Page 5
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