MUTINY IN CAMP.
LEADERS STARVED INTO SUBMISSION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, April 6. The War Ministry reveals that 40 poilus in a disciplinary camp on the Island of Cleron mutinied on March 20, entered a cafe, barricaded the doors, and sang ditties insulting to the offiIn order to prevent bloodshed the officers had the cafe surrounded and invited the malcontents to surrender. Many complied, and the ringleaders, who were ex-naval men concerned in a former mutiny at Calvie, were starved into submission in three days.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18538, 8 April 1930, Page 9
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87MUTINY IN CAMP. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18538, 8 April 1930, Page 9
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