TROOPS DISOBEY ORDERS
COURT-MARTIAL IN * INDIA SEVENTEEN STAND TRIAL VARIOUS EXCUSES GIVEN By Telegraph—Press Assn.-Copyright. Rec. 8.25 p.m. Delhi, June 5. Seventeen non-commissioned officers and men of A Company, Second Battalion, Eighteenth Royal Garhwal Rifles, who refused duty at Peshawar in connection with the riots there on April 24, were court-martialled at Abbottabad yesterday. Evidence was given that several of the men said they were fed up with duty in Peshawar and declined to kill children and old people in the city. Some had grievances about pay and pensions and others about rations.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 June 1930, Page 9
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