Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-11 | Page 3 | Canadian Troops Border on Mutiny

CANADIAN D TROOPS T BORDER ON MUTINY MUT NY Colonial F Forces in South Africa Claim That Authorities Have Broken Faith With Them VANCOUVER Feb 11 Canadian H.-Canadian Canadian troops In South Africa are represented to be In a state bordering g on mutiny Letters received In this city from Kru- Kru state that the Canadian troops in the Transvaal are to be disbanded disbanded disbanded dis dis- banded and apportioned in small batches among the regiments of Imperial imperial imperial impe Impe- rial troops stationed at various points throughout the country The Canadians Canadians Canadians Cana Cana- have refused to be scattered among the imperial troops throughout the country and their action is considered consid consid- ere ered 1 mutinous The Canadians however claim that the military authorities have broken faith gith ith them in several instances alleging bad faith in the matter of ot pay and also regarding the purchases of discharges and being kept together and officered by Canadians It Is alleged that the first and and second contingents and the Strathcona Horse did such brilliant work that the jealousy jealousy jealousy jeal jeal- of British officers w was s aroused and that the Canadian contingents now in Sou South h Africa are paying the penalty