Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 2 | Discipline Follows Letter of Protest

DISCIPLINE FOLLOWS LETTER OF PROTEST Men Signing Round Robin Will Be Lectured .011 , Soldierly Duties. EL PASO, Dec. 23. The formal Investigation Investi-gation of the "round robin" signod by approximately ap-proximately 700 members of the Eighth Ohio infantry has been completed by Major Ely of General George Bell's staff and the report forwarded to General Bell. Colonel Edward Vollraith, commander of the Eighth Ohio Infantry, said today that the Investigation had developed no new facts regarding the situation in camp, and added that the "round robin" had "made a mountain out of a mole hill." He also said that Private Dixon, who was charged with having drafted the. (i "round robin," was being confined to his Quarters at the infantry camp. J Tiie "round robin" was prepared as a -m protest against camp conditions in tho Ohio camp and was intercepted before it reached an Ohio newspaper, it was said at the Ohio camp. H was understood here today that the recommendation of the regular army inspector, in-spector, following his Investigation, was that the twenty or more non-commissioned officers who signed the "round robin" bo asked to resign and return to the ranks as privates. It was also recommended In the report, according to reliable Information, that the men who signed the paper be piven a lecture on the duties of soldiers and warned that their action was unmllitary. Because of their brief service, they were not to be further disciplined, It was said. The case of Private Richard Dixon, who was said to have prepared the "round robin," will he taken up further, and It was said today that a xeneial court-martial court-martial might be recommended for him. It was declared that his Information about the death of Private Rodney Lapp j was false and without foundation. The attitude of the regimental surgeons toward to-ward the men was criticised, it was said, but no recommendation made regarding them.