MUTINOUS VICTORIANS.
THEIR RELEASE GRANTED. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright London, Oct. 27. In response to a petition to the 1 ig, signed by Alfred \V. Kearney and a score of other Australians now at Clapliam, the War Office has quashed the court-martial proceedings and ordered the immediate release ot three members of the Fifth Victorian Mounted infantry sentenced to death, whose sentences were afterwards commuted to a term of penal servitude for mutinous conduct ■ .'lu-u resenting tiie epithet of “ white-livered curs ” used by Brigadier-General Beatson on the occasion of the reverse of the Victorians at Williamrust on June 12th. Beatson, who, according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph of October 3rd, used some strongly condemnatory language, was subsequently recalled.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 248, 28 October 1901, Page 2
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