CAUSE OF THE MUTINY.
MADE HIS MEN KNEEL. COMMODORE TAKES THEIR PART. (Received 5.42 a.m.) LONDON, November 6.
Details which arc now to hand explain the immediate occasion of the Portsmouth mutiny, and explain the fact that even after the most sensational outbreak since that of the Grenadier Guards some 14 years ago. tho men received a virtual recognition that their action was excusable.
The trouble began in the conduct of an officer who kept the men on parade for an unnecessarily long period during a deluging rainstorm, with the consequence that at last they bolted to shelter without awaiting dismissal. The officer then ordered them to parade in the gymnasium. Hearing insulting remarks from the stokers, he next directed the front rank to kneel, in order to gee the rear ranks., but the men refused.
When the order was repeated they all knelt except two, one of whom declared that he would bend the kuee to God alone.
After their attempt to quit the barracks had been frustrated. Commodore Stopford released the arrested stokers after inquiry, and announced that the matter had now dropped.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 260, 7 November 1906, Page 5
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