e Acting Inspector General, American
Forces in North Russia. This officer states the facts to be as follows:

"'Company "I", 339th Infantry, was in rest area at Smallney Barracks,
in the outskirts of Archangel, Russia, when orders were received to go
to the railroad point and relieve another company. The following
morning the first sergeant ordered the company to turn out and load
sleds. He reported to the captain that the men did not respond as
directed. The captain then went to the barracks and demanded of the
men standing around the stove: "Who refuses to turn out and load
sleds?" No reply from the men. The captain then asked the trumpeter,
who was standing nearby, if he refused to turn out and load the sleds,
and the trumpeter replied he was ready if the balance were, but that
he was not going out and load packs of others on the sleds by himself,
or words to that effect. The captain then went to the phone and
reported the trouble as "mutiny" to Col. Stewart, the Commanding
Officer, American Forces in North Russia. Col. Stewart directed him to
have the men assemble in Y. M. C. A. hut and he would be out at once
and talk to them. The colonel arrived and read the Article of War as
to mutiny and talked to the men a few minutes. He then said he was
ready to answer any questions the men cared to ask. Some one wanted to
know 'What are we here for and what are the intentions of the U. S.
Government?' The colonel answered this as well as he could. He then
asked if there was anyone of the company who would not obey the order
to load the sleds; if so, step up to the front. No one moved. The
colonel then directed the men to load the sleds without delay, which
was done.

"'The testimony showed that the captain commanding Company "I", 339th
Infantry, did not order his company formed nor did he ever give a direct
order for the sleds to be loaded. He did not report this trouble to the
commanding officer (a field officer) of Smallney Barracks, but
hastened to phone his troubles to the Commanding Officer, American
Forces in North Russia.'

"The inspector further states that the company was at the front when the
investigation was being made (May, 1919) and that the service of all
concerned, at that time, was considered satisfactory by the battalion
commander.

"The conclusions of the inspector were that from such evidence as could
be obtained the alleged mutiny was nothin