Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revolt. Two platoons of the Eleventh Sudanese Regiment at Khartum in the Sudan mutinied, started to march to Gordon College. Near the Egyptian military hospital in the Khedivial Avenue they bumped into two platoons of a British Egyptian regiment; both came to a halt. The British officer went forward, exhorted the Sudanese to obey orders, but the Sudanese refused. At this moment the acting Sirdar, Colonel Huddleston, rode up and went forward in front of the British troops to urge sanity on the Sudanese. But the Sudanese merely declined to recognize the Sirdar. Orders were then given to round...
Liberal. A revolt within the Liberal Party was incepted when Captain W. Wedgwood Benn, M. P. for Leith, wrote to a prominent Liberal newspaper: "I cannot acknowledge in any way, direct or indirect, Mr. Lloyd George as my leader in the House of Commons . . . The vital fault is want of trust. The people have no confidence, and rightly so, in Mr. Lloyd George...
This statement was made while ex-Premier Asquith, the leader whom Captain Benn prefers, was "journeying to Egypt to consult the Sphinx on the Liberal riddle," in the words of Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The political significance of the incipient revolt is little, because most of the Liberals in the new House of Commons are faithful to Mr. George. If, however, Mr. Asquith should decide to return from Egypt to contest a Dundee seat made vacant by the death of Laborite Edmund D. Morel, and if he should be elected, the small Liberal group...
Justice Clarke, dean of pro-leaguers, prophesied that Christianity could not survive another war. A young Mexican, one Herbert M. Sein, pitched his voice high, shrilly shrieked, vaticinated: "the revolt of fighters and workers?the great refusal to fight?will make the war stage collapse." To place flags in churches is barbarous, to pray for victory a sin, said he. Realizing that such talk defeats its purpose, the Alliance officials quieted the youth, sent him home...
...Revolt Started at Boone...