Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-04-30 | Page 36 | Mutiny Signs in Indian Army

mm sions ARMY Radical Asitation Make-. Native Troops Almost Unmanageable ALLAHABAD. India. April 20. ' By the Associated Prcsa. ) Ou'.-, breaks of Insubordination and dlsobe-' dience bordering on mutiny are reported re-ported from army headquarters In j the Jullundur region, where members, of the Fourteenth SUha and tho Nineteenth Punjabis regiments aro; said to be almost . unmaingc fbTe .s a result of agitation b radical political politi-cal leaders. i The trouble began when two men Of the Fourteenth Sikhs appeared be- fi.t their commanding officer wear-', ing black pugrccs, or turbans il-though il-though In uniform. When they . i reprimanded f"' this insubordination, six of their comrades promptly committed com-mitted the same offense and -0 others, oth-ers, deserted. Prison sentences were! decreed for all the offenders. Indian Officers of the regiment attribute ih-outburst ih-outburst to the release of certain Sikh prisoners from civil custody. In the Nineteenth Punjabis at the same station a Sikli sepoy insisted on wearing a longer kirpan (weapon) than the regulations allow. TOheh arrested he went on hunger strike, and the whole of bis Com- pan) followed suit in sympathy, lie! was sentenced to imprisonment and, the rouble subsided for a time, but j later five men appeared on pai fo in unifor mWith black pugress, which I hey refu-scd to remove. This defiance defi-ance also was punished by prisdsi sentences. sen-tences. I Both regiments have excellent war: records, and were due to Leavi soon for service overseas. It was while1 theinen were taking their shor lcaev before departure that the ;ig tatora art said to have mule special ff6rts to Influence them. C j It has been seeral years sliiev (ho last ootlceable disaffection in thl Indian In-dian army. I , . do 1