SERIOUS CAMP RIOT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1329, 5 January 1912, Page 5

SERIOUS CAMP RIOT.

BRICKS AND BAYONETS. YORKSHIREMEN V. HIGHLANDERS. A NOTED BOXEK. By Telcirriph—Presa Association—Oonyriu'tot London, January 3. The Press Association states that a Scottish infantry regiment at Longmoor camp, Fetersfield, Hampshire, enraged at being refused a holiday on New Year's Day, smashed their huts and as-ailed their officers with stones. The men formed a square, and the sergeants attempted to rush the position, but received bayonet wounds. One was shot seriously. Eventually an officer, noted as a boxer, challenged the men's representative to single combat, and vanquished him. The disturbance then subsided. SEQUEL TO A FOOTBALL MATCH. 170 WINDOWS BROKEN. (Rec. January 4, 11 p.m.) London, January i. The riot at Longmoor was duo to tho fact that while the Scotsmen were smarting under the defeat of the Black Watch football team, a party of Yorkshiremen came into the quarters in tho evening and chaffed the Highlanders, who sallied forth. Blows were exchanged, both sides using bricks taken from a new building near by. Other Yorksiremen then rushed to the rescue, and some of the Highlanders fixed their bayonets. Others smashed their bedsteads and used the bars as weapons. The melee lasted twenty minute?, a hundred and seventy windows being broken. Finally the officers, many of whom were in their pyjamas, succeeded in stopping the fight. The officers deny that there was a mutiny.