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Show MUTINY AT WINDSOR. THE GRENADIER CUARDS AGAIN KICK AGAINST, THEIR RATIONS. They Threw Their Bread Out of the Win-tlows Win-tlows Emperor William Looking After the Morals of Berlin Broken Heads at Cork Other Foreign News. London, Oct. 2S. Military circles and the public iu general were startled today by the publication in the columns of Truth of the details of another mutinous outbreak on the part of the grenadier guards, who are now stationed at Windsor Castle. This is the second mutiny of the same battalion within six mouths, and had its origin in the ill-feeling permeating many of the corps of the British army on account of insufficient and unpalatable rations which the men claimed were served to them for their meals. On Wednesday, October 14th, these rations, ra-tions, they claim, were especially bad and caused the smoldering feeling of insubordination insubordi-nation to break out. The privates of one company refused to eat the rations, aud they were confined to the barracks for a day and the corporals of the same company were placed under arrest pending an inquiry into the mutinous conduct of the privates. Inquiry made into the outbreak showed that the Grenadiers had upon a previous occasion oc-casion complained of the quality of bread served serv-ed them and the. justness of their complaint not being admitted, the men threw the bread out of the barracks windows into the square. Adjutant of the bataliau declared that he was not aware the men had acted in the planner mentioned, adding that he was wholly ignorant of the entire incident and that he had not received any report upon the subject. Thereupon Truth say?: "The evidence of 10(1 witnesses can prove the facts of this outbreak and the consequent arrests possible without the colonel or the adjutant knowing of them. The worst said about the gulf separating the officers from the men is not far short of the truth.'' |