SOLDIERS MUTINY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 100, 5 January 1912, Page 5

SOLDIERS MUTINY.

A SENSATIONAL STORY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 3. The Press Association states that a Scottish infantry regiment at the camp at Peterefield, Hants, enraged at being refused a holiday on New Year's Day. smashed their huts and assailed their officers with stones. The men formed a square, and the sergeants attempted to rush the position. They received bayonet wounds, and one was shot seriously. Eventually an officer, who is noted as a boxer, challenged the men's representative to a single combat, and vanquished him, and the disturbance subsided. ! MERELY A ROW. OYER THE RESULT OF A FOOTBALL MATCH. Received 4, II p.m. London. January 4. The riot at Longmoor was due to the Scotsmen smarting over the defeat of the Black Watch football team. A party of Yorkshiremen came to their quarters for the evening and chaffed the Highlanders, who sallied forth. Blows were exchanged, both sides using bricks from a new building near by. Other Yorkshiremen rushed to the rescue. Some Highlanders fixed bayonets, and others smashed bedsteads and used the bars as weapons. The melee lasted twenty minutes. A hundred a seventy windows were broken. Finally, the officers, many of whom were in their pyjamas, succeeded in stopping the fight. The officers deny that there was a mutiny.