MUTINOUS REGIMENT DEALT WITH

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3111, 15 June 1917, Page 5

MUTINOUS REGIMENT DEALT WITH

Petrograd, June 13. Following upou the issue of orders for the reorganisation of one of tho armies on tho Rumanian front, three regiments mutinied, and arr-'stM a colonel and seven officers. One regiment, which refused to proceed anywhirc, was surrounded by a division of cavalry, two battalions of infantry, a battery of artillery, a squadron of armoured cars, and a number of aeroplanes. As the mutineers were dilatory in handing over the ringleaders, tho infantry and cavalry entered the village, whereupon the mutineers submitted unconditionally. Four officers of the ringleaders were- rescued with difficulty from the loyal troops, and sent to Headquarters. The regiment was then marched off to a new sector — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE SUPREME COMMAND AT THE FRONT (lice. June 13, 0.5 a.m.) r. it. , • «,•,.., r. Petrograd, Julio U. lieneral Donekuis. ex-Cluef of tlio General Staff, lias been appointed to the supremo commaiul on tlio western front in succession to General Gurko.-Renter.' AUSTRIAN MILITARY PEACE DELEGATES SENT TO SIBERIA . (Kec. Ju.no 11. 5.-I0 p.m.) rp, ... , , , , , Petrograd; June Kt. Ihe Austrian peace delegates have been sent to Siberia as prisoners of war —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. pThe peace delegates referred to included a party of Austrian military of facers, some- of high, rank, who came into .Kishinev, in Bessarabia, and express ed a desire to open up pourparlers. They were arrested and pent to Pet rend}