AN OFFICER’S INSUBORDINATION.
PLACED UNDER ARREST
(Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Doc. 2. A sensation was caused in local volunteering circles to-day when it became known that C-apt. F. B. Kvnvett, officer commanding the No. 1 Company, Axickland Garrison Artillery Volunteers had been placed under arrest for an aJeged act of gross insubordination in enticisin" the administration of the Defence Department and in bringing a charge against his. superior officer, couched m most insubordinate language. The suspension of Capt. Kynvett is the culnunation of the recent visit of No. 1 Company to Wellington, and it .is understood to have arisen directly from a letter forwarded to the Defence Minister, the contents of which commented upon the action of Colonel Rohm, chief of the general staff, on that occasion.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2675, 3 December 1909, Page 5
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127AN OFFICER’S INSUBORDINATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2675, 3 December 1909, Page 5
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