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Show Fearing Smallpox, British Troopers Refuse to Entrain PLYMOUTH, June 8. Fifteen hundred British troops of General Gen-eral Allenby's forces in Egypt and Palestine who returned here tonight after having served at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and the Balkans, refused to entrain for an isolation camp. The order was given because six cases suspected of smallpox had been discovered during the voyage to England. The soldiers who had entrained left the cars and the others refused to enter. The authorities finally gave way and the men went to demobilization centers cen-ters Instead of to the isolation camp. Interested spectators of. the scene were officers and men of the U. S. 8. Aroostook, which will shortly return to New York. |