Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1916 — Five Thousand Border Soldiers Went On Riot Last Week. [ARTICLE]

Five Thousand Border Soldiers Went On Riot Last Week.

Knox Republican. Five thousand soldiers stationed at Llano Grande Went on a riot one night last week. Among the rioters were two Indiana regiments and troops from Minnesota and Nebraska. The men are dead tired of being kept on the bonier. They marched in a body to the headquarters of. General Lewis and demanded to be send home. They do not know what they are there for, but most of them believe it ~ purely a matter of politics. One m who tried to quell the riot was told to get out of the way or stand the consequences. The First Indiana infantry, to which our boys are attached, did not participate in the disturbance. Letters have been received here telling of the affair. Our boys expected to be ordered out with loaded guns to quell the riot. TJie daily nowspapers have said nothing about the row and nothing would be known of it outside the camp had not our boys told o£ it in their letters. Some of the married men who have returned from Llano Grande say they are not surprised at the uprising. They expressed fear that more would follow mdess -StHneUwng" -done ro sat; st v the troops as to why they are being held there. The government ought to have Captain Schricker go down and make these men a patriotic speech.