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all of them in the two squadrons men- 

 tioned at the opening of our narrative, 

 refused to go out again. This was at 

 Standerton. 



The Officer Commanding immediately 

 put Major Blair, his second-in-command 

 and an experienced officer, in charge of the 

 men at Standerton. Almost immediately 

 after entering upon this duty, Major 

 Blair reported, by telegraph, that there 

 was open mutiny. He had put under 

 arrest all the non-commissioned officers 

 except one. He asked his chief to 

 come down. 



Lord Tullibardine did go down, and 

 found that officers and men were 

 at loggerheads. Hoping to overcome the 

 trouble, he sent all the officers away on 

 leave. Then he paraded the men, and 

 had a long talk with them. His anxiety 

 was to make them realise that they were 

 mutinous, and that mutiny was a crime 

 of the gravest kind. 



The men could not agree with his 

 definition of their attitude. Denying 



